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Maria Gutkowska-Rychlewska, History of Clothing [1968]
Title: History of Costumes.
Author: Maria Gutkowska-Rychlewska (1899–1991) [Krakow-based art historian, graphic artist, and costume designer; curator at the National Museum in Krakow; pioneer of Polish research on the history of costume].
Publisher: Wrocław–Warsaw–Kraków, Ossoliński National Institute.
Year of publication: 1968.
Format: 26 cm.
Number of pages: 961.
Binding: Hardcover with cloth binding.
“The History of Clothing” is the most comprehensive Polish study of the history of costume and has been the standard textbook on costume studies for over half a century. The author guides the reader from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, all the way to European fashion of the 18th and 19th centuries. The text is organized chronologically and geographically across several dozen chapters. The volume contains approximately 870 illustrations in the text and 40 plates, as well as a section on sewing patterns from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The book concludes with a glossary of clothing terms, fabrics, and accessories, as well as a list of illustrations in Polish and French. The book is the result of several decades of the author’s research, teaching, and museum work. To this day, it serves as a starting point for art historians, textile conservators, set designers, and costume designers.
Maria Stanisława Gutkowska-Rychlewska was born on June 4, 1899, in Kraków. From 1917 to 1922, she studied art history, classical archaeology, and philosophy at Jagiellonian University. She defended her doctoral dissertation on the painter Jan Nepomucen Głowacki in 1923. At the same time, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Ignacy Pieńkowski, Wojciech Weiss, and Jan Wojnarowski, and received her diploma in graphic arts with the highest honors. For nearly twenty years (1927–1945), she taught drawing, art history, and costume design at the State Vocational School for Girls in Kraków. From 1952 to 1970, she headed the textile conservation studio at the National Museum in Kraków, where she developed methods for conserving textiles without the use of chemicals. She died on September 24, 1991, in Kraków and is buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.
Provenance: from the book collection of Stefan Kowalik of Nowa Sarzyna.
This is a classic compendium of Polish costume studies, bound in a cloth cover. A must-have for art and fashion historians, textile conservators, set designers, costume designers, and collectors of Ossolineum publications.
The block is solid and structurally sound; the last page is loose but can be easily reattached.
Catalog ID: 17329-26-A-X
Title: History of Costumes.
Author: Maria Gutkowska-Rychlewska (1899–1991) [Krakow-based art historian, graphic artist, and costume designer; curator at the National Museum in Krakow; pioneer of Polish research on the history of costume].
Publisher: Wrocław–Warsaw–Kraków, Ossoliński National Institute.
Year of publication: 1968.
Format: 26 cm.
Number of pages: 961.
Binding: Hardcover with cloth binding.
“The History of Clothing” is the most comprehensive Polish study of the history of costume and has been the standard textbook on costume studies for over half a century. The author guides the reader from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, all the way to European fashion of the 18th and 19th centuries. The text is organized chronologically and geographically across several dozen chapters. The volume contains approximately 870 illustrations in the text and 40 plates, as well as a section on sewing patterns from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The book concludes with a glossary of clothing terms, fabrics, and accessories, as well as a list of illustrations in Polish and French. The book is the result of several decades of the author’s research, teaching, and museum work. To this day, it serves as a starting point for art historians, textile conservators, set designers, and costume designers.
Maria Stanisława Gutkowska-Rychlewska was born on June 4, 1899, in Kraków. From 1917 to 1922, she studied art history, classical archaeology, and philosophy at Jagiellonian University. She defended her doctoral dissertation on the painter Jan Nepomucen Głowacki in 1923. At the same time, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Ignacy Pieńkowski, Wojciech Weiss, and Jan Wojnarowski, and received her diploma in graphic arts with the highest honors. For nearly twenty years (1927–1945), she taught drawing, art history, and costume design at the State Vocational School for Girls in Kraków. From 1952 to 1970, she headed the textile conservation studio at the National Museum in Kraków, where she developed methods for conserving textiles without the use of chemicals. She died on September 24, 1991, in Kraków and is buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.
Provenance: from the book collection of Stefan Kowalik of Nowa Sarzyna.
This is a classic compendium of Polish costume studies, bound in a cloth cover. A must-have for art and fashion historians, textile conservators, set designers, costume designers, and collectors of Ossolineum publications.
The block is solid and structurally sound; the last page is loose but can be easily reattached.
Catalog ID: 17329-26-A-X
