FAS 202: Books

Fashion Books from the Met to Read Online or Download (FREE!)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers 425 books and exhibition catalogs you can download for free  They also have fashion books available for download or to read online as well. See the links below for titles and download information.

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (2008)

• Christian Dior by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1996)

• American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s by Richard Martin (1998)

• The Essential Art of African Textiles by Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini (2008)

• History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century by various authors

• Madame Grès by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1994)

• Our New Clothes: Acquisitions of the 1990s by Richard Martin (1999)

• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815 by various authors

• Bare Witness by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1996)

• Bloom! by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1995)

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton (2006)

• The Eighteenth-Century Woman by Olivier Bernier (1982)

• The Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era by Polly Cone (1980)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837–1877 by Caroline Goldthorpe (1989)

• Haute Couture by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1995)

• Infra-Apparel by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1993)

• The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644–1912 by Jean Mailey (1980)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1994)

• Waist Not: The Migration of the Waist, 1800–1960 by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1994)

• Wordrobe by Richard Martin (1997)