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Transcribing Dots: Batiks' Journey from East to West

Posted on:2014-08-17Degree:M.AType:Thesis
University:Corcoran College of Art + DesignCandidate:Burke, RachelFull Text:PDF
GTID:2455390005984298Subject:Design and Decorative Arts
Abstract/Summary:
This thesis project is background research for an exhibition on Batiks. The research begins with the goals of the exhibition, the location and then the content and feel of the exhibition. The exhibition entitled Transcribing Dots: Batiks, Journey from East to West starts with the invention of the batik process. Then explains how the technique move westward and became fashionable in Europe at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition will end with the explanation of how Batik disappeared in Western fashion and where it is still fashionable today.
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