New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) has released 325 of its now out-of-print publications with full text online and in PDF format that can be downloaded to computers and PDF compatible readers, such as the Amazon Kindle. While some of these publications have been out-of-print for years, many are fairly recent and all are of high quality and valuable resources for the designer, historian, student and enthusiast. Some of the noteable costume research titles include:
The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815
Le Bourhis, Katell, ed., with essays by Charles Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arrizoli-Clémental, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (1989)
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American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s
Martin, Richard (1998)
The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620
Pyhrr, Stuart W., Donald J. LaRocca, and Dirk H. Breiding (2005)
The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators
Watts, Edith W. (1998)
The Ceaseless Century: Three Hundred Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume
Martin, Richard
(1998)
Christian Dior
Martin, Richard, and Harold Koda
(1996
Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
Koda, Harold, and Andrew Bolton, with an introduction by Mimi Hellman (2006)
As you can imagine with over 320 titles available there is a plethora of substantial visual and written research available free to local, national and international costume designers. This is an amazing resource that the MMA has gifted to the community.
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