e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Bowles, Hamish.
Subjects
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 -- Exhibitions.
Fashion designers -- Spain
Fashion and art -- Exhibitions.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bowles, Hamish.
by title:
Balenciaga and Spain...
by call number:
746.92 B787b
Search the Web
Bowles, Hamish.
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 -- Exhibitions.
Fashion designers -- Spain
Fashion and art -- Exhibitions.
MARC Display
Balenciaga and Spain / Hamish Bowles.
by
Bowles, Hamish.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Distributed in the U.S. trade by Random House, 2011.
Call #:
746.92 B787b
Subjects
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972
Balenciaga, Cristobal, 1895-1972 -- Exhibitions.
Fashion designers -- Spain
Fashion and art -- Exhibitions.
ISBN:
9780847836468 (hardback)
0847836460 (hardback)
9780884011323 (paperback)
0884011321 (paperback)
Description:
256 pages : ill. (some color) ; 32 cm.
Notes:
"Published by the
Fine
Arts
Museums
of
San
Francisco
and Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., on the occasion of the exhibition Balenciaga and Spain, on view at the
de
Young
Museum
from March 26 through July 4, 2011."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Balenciaga: an appreciation, February 1973 / Baroness Philippe
de
Rothschild -- Spanish art -- Royal court -- Religious life -- Dance -- The bullfight -- Regional dress.
Summary:
'This unprecedented volume accompanies the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain's culture, history, and art on one of its greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Balenciaga. Hailed as "Fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Cristbal Balenciaga (1895-1972) created an innovative oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris fashion house in 1937 until his retirement in 1968, Balenciaga's visionary, ever-evolving designs and impeccable standards seduced generations of the most iconic, best-dressed women in the world, including the Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Guinness, Pauline
de
Rothschild, Mona Bismarck, Princess Grace of Monaco, Doris Duke, Diana Vreeland, and Queen Fabiola of Belgium. For Diana Vreeland, the designer's "inspiration came from the bullrings, the flamenco dancers, the loose blouses the fishermen wear, the cool of the cloisters." Exploring the profound and enduring influence of Balenciaga's native country on his work, this book considers the influences of Spain's greatest artists, from Zurbarǹ, Velzquez, and Goya to Picasso and Mir. It also investigates the impact of Spain's religious dress and ceremony, its royal history, its rich regional costume, its dance traditions, and the power and splendor of the bullfight on the protean Balenciaga's designs. This illuminating and lavishly illustrated volume will be a must-have for art and fashion connoisseurs'--Publisher.
Other authors:
M
.H.
De
Young
Memorial
Museum
.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Non-Circulating Reference
746.92 B787b
Non-circulating
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.