Orientalism Visions of the East in Western Dress

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Harold Koda, Richard Harrison Martin — 1994

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art during the first quarter of 1995. The authors (both curators at The Costume Institute) explore the West's fascination with ideas and motifs from the various Easts, and demonstrate the expression of t