UID:
kobvindex_JMB00115804
Format:
2 Bde
ISBN:
9781588396457
Content:
This catalogue accompanies The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition. Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world's greatest works of art. These masterworks have, in turn, fueled the imaginations of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in the history of fashion. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination explores fashion's complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism by examining the role of spirituality and religion in contemporary culture. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions. One volume features images of rarely seen objects from the Vatican—ecclesiastical garments and accessories—while the other focuses on fashions by designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grés, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests—or subverts—Catholic values and ideology. Andrew Bolton is Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Note:
This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 10 through October 8, 2018
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2 Bände in Schuber
Language:
English
Author information:
Ravasi, Gianfranco
Author information:
Tracy, David
