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• The Lost Art of Dress explores how, in the first half of the 20th century, a remarkable group of women, whom Przybyszewski calls the Dress Doctors, taught Americans how to dress well and spearheaded a nationwide movement toward beautiful, economical, and egalitarian fashion. By the 1960s, however, the reign of the Dress Doctors was coming to an end. During the 70′s and 80′s, the rejection of the Dress Doctors went even further, as feminist groups targeted Home Economics classes in schools as examples of society’s pervasive sexism — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introducing the Dress Doctors — Art: principles for beauty — Occasions: the duty and pleasure of dress — Thrift: much for little — Revolt: the fall of the Dress Doctors — Aftermath: tyrannies of age and size.

Subjects:

• Fashion — United States — History — 20th century.
• Women fashion designers — United States.
• United States — Social life and customs — 20th century.

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• DVD.
• Title on disc: Trax Gallery presents Warren McKenzie.
• Produced and edited by Blair Gershkow photography by Lex Fletcher.
• This 18 minute DVD is an informative interview of Warren MacKenzie, his history, influences and perspectives on the ‘hand-made pot.’ Filmed at the Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA. –Distributor’s Web site.
• Warren MacKenzie creates traditional pottery for everyday use, a style known in Japan as Mingei. He is part of a vital community of potters centered in the St. Croix Valley of Minnesota, whose style is fondly referred to as Mingei-sota. The Mingei philosophy was brought to England by Bernard Leach in the 1920s, and potters from all over the world, including MacKenzie, have apprenticed at the Leach Pottery and carried its honest, inexpensive, and functional aesthetic back home. MacKenzie’s career spans 60 years. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and works out of his studio in Stillwater, Minnesota. [One of his former students, Sandy Simon, owns TRAX Gallery in Berkeley, California. This DVD records MacKenzie's workshop there in April 2003.] –Publisher’s Web site.

Subjects:

• Pottery craft — Japan — Technique.
• Workshops (Adult education) — California — Berkeley.
• Pottery, Japanese — Technique.
• Folk art — Japan.
• Artists as teachers — Minnesota.

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• Includes index.
• Ceramic artists share their fast-firing methods and directions for building simple kilns. This book illustrates the full scope of the ceramic process and the diverse results that can be achieved.–[book cover]
• Out of the kiln, into the fire — A fellowship in clay — Raku — Origins and modern practice — Building a raku kiln — Basic raku firing — Alternative raku reduction techniques — Amber-tinted ferric chloride reduction — High-contrast horsehair reduction — Rust-red reduction — Terra sigillata reduction — Gunmetal black reduction — Copper matte-alcohol reduction — Iridescent luster fuming — Low-fire salt fuming — Saggar — Silver-black terra sigillata with masked resist — Multi-colored surfaces — Aluminum foil saggar — Iridescent luster fuming in a clay saggar — Pit — Barrel — Terra sigillata and barrel firing — Downdraft stovepipe barrel kiln — Gallery — Glazes, slips, and colorants — Orton cone chart.

Subjects:

• Kilns.
• Firing (Ceramics)
• Pottery craft.
• Raku pottery.

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