117/ Exploring EXPLORE with a particular Artwork Deco statue labelled KESTOS
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The search instruments on the net platform of EXPLORE, the Visible
Contagions mission on the School of Letters, College of Geneva, allow a comparability of a particular picture with comparable photos in 1000’s of printed
periodicals … Come Play Alongside! (1).
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On this submit our
chosen picture is a novel English Artwork Deco statue, seemingly by no means exhibited
nor recorded in any Artwork Journal or different out there sources. It’s a life-sized sculpture, labelled KESTOS on the bottom,
presently owned by The John Vibrant
Assortment, produced within the mid1930s to advertise the KESTOS bra of the English underwear producer Kestos, based in London in 1925 (2) (3).
The agency
took its title from Aphrodite’s well-known ‘kestos himas poikilos’ = embroidered girdle
in Homer’s Iliad, E book 14 (4).
On the lookout for photos
comparable in EXPLORE
In Fig. 1
are introduced 10% of 100 outcomes, ordered by diploma (rating) of similarity. 9
out of ten photos show sculptures of standing
feminine nudes, all categorised as ‘Ornamental Artwork’ like our
nominated picture. They have been printed between 1903 and 1928 in German
periodicals, one French in 1951. The scores of similarity are comparatively excessive between
0,549 and 0,468. Particulars about every picture might be discovered by clicking the primary
icon in the suitable higher nook ‘See picture in context’ and by
clicking the following arrow ‘Full measurement obtain’. An instance is given in Fig.2.
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The primary
comparable picture, with the best rating, exhibits a statue with its head in profile (turned
to proper) (Fig.2, illustration n° 192 within the given publication Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration,
Jan.1,1916), equal to the chosen picture with its head turned to left. Additional
examinations present that a number of of the sculptures have their heads in profile.
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Taking a look at all hundred photos, many
extra comparable photos of sculptures presenting standing feminine nudes might be recognized. Thus there’s proof that our chosen
statue belongs to an period of comparable sculptures, however the very typical Artwork Deco model of KESTOS just isn’t represented in
this train (5).
Sadly,
the Featured Corpus of EXPLORE lacks British periodicals. A search within the British
Newspaper Archive (BNA) of the British Library yields tons of of articles,
ads and illustrations of the KESTOS Bra, however the statue might
not be discovered, because it was in all probability by no means exhibited.
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Fig.3 exhibits an instance of a complicated
search in BNA with a typical commercial illustration and an announcement of
a “KESTOS WEEK in BIRMINGHAM“ (6).
We are able to additionally
seek for comparable photos of KESTOS illustrations in EXPLORE.
Fig.4 (10% of 100
outcomes) exhibits illustrations all categorised ‘Illustrated Journal’
printed from 1927 to 1962, with a majority within the Thirties, in Amsterdam,
Berlin, New York, Paris.
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As could possibly be
anticipated, given the dearth of British periodicals, no duplicate of the quite a few
KESTOS illustrations is discovered on this search, although the ‘sport’ in addition to the underwear topics are in lots of photos current.
KESTOS
illustrations are thought-about as typical Britisch Artwork Deco graphics (8).
They might be simply present in Google Photographs (search ‘Leo Klin Kestos’) (Fig.5).
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NOTES
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EXPLORE permits for locating
comparable photos or for a search with a particular picture out of your pc within the Featured Corpus of Open Entry Periodicals,
primarily 1890-1950, Europe, N. America with 3.6 million photos in 145,834
paperwork. -
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US;The John Vibrant Assortment of
historic costumes has a webpage ‘Kestos
Aphrodite Mid 1930s ‘ about this statue, its name-giving and its
promotional position for the agency Kestos
in modern London of the Thirties. The
creator of this plaster sculpture with metallic end is unknown, however the
design was doubtless made by Leo Klin, an artist of Russian origin who moved to
London in 1920. Klin was additionally the principal designer of the illustrations for promoting
the bra KESTOS. -
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The
Underpinnings Museum‘s webpage ‘Rosamond
Lilian Klin: The Inventor Of The Kestos Bra’ tells the story of the
designer Rosamond Lilian Thompson who married Leo Klin in 1934, the revolutionary
nature of the bra and the story of the producer, nonetheless run by Klin after
Thompson’s dying in 1949 until the mid Fifties. This webpage doesn’t discuss with the
KESTOS-statue within the John Vibrant
Assortment (2). - See
submit
27/
The girdle of Aphrodite-Venus…or was it her ‘wonderbra’? and its COMMENT
nr 42. - The
full textual content within the Evening
Despatch – Monday 27 April 1931: KESTOS WEEK in BIRMINGHAM Particular Girdles
Outlets CARNIVAL NIGHT AT WEST END DANCE HALL APRIL twenty ninth BEAUTY COMPETITION
JUDGED BY MR LEO KLIN. VALUABLE KESTOS PRIZES AND SILVER CUPS PRESENTED BY
MISS HEATHER THATCHER. - This will not shock as a result of the model ‘Artwork Deco’ is seldom a profitable search time period in webcollections, e.g. EUROPEANA Collections exhibits 6 objects for ‘Artwork Deco sculptures’ or in Artl@s database: superior search in Exhibitions – Exhibition or catalog title contains ‘artwork deco’ > No Knowledge.
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Examples
of KESTOS ads might be present in ‘British
Modern – Graphics between the Wars’ (1998), by Steve Heller and
Louise Fill, surveys graphic illustrations and ads from the late
Nineteen Twenties to the late Thirties.
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