Title & Author:

Sleeping beauties : reawakening fashion / Andrew Bolton ; with contributions by Margherita Barone, Linda Borsch, William DeGregorio, Nick Knight, Stephanie Kramer, Rachel Lackner, Dr. Junpeng Lai, Christopher Mazza, Dr. Ronald Miles, Glenn Petersen, Elizabeth Shaeffer, and Sissel Tolaas ; photographs by Nick Knight ; with additional photographs by Anna-Marie Kellen.

Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2024]
©2024
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Description:

xxiii, 469 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), photograph ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 10-September 2, 2024.
Issued in slipcase.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-465).
Directors' foreword / Max Hollein and Marina Kellen -- Sponsors' statements / Shou Chew ; Pascale Lepoivre -- Introduction / Andrew Bolton -- Earth. Painted flowers ; Blurred blossoms ; Dior's garden ; Petal paillettes ; Van Gogh's flowers ; Garthwaite's garden ; Poppies ; Daisies ; Tulips ; The red rose ; The black rose ; Les roses ; Scent of a man ; The garden Reseda luteola -- Air. Garden life ; Insects ; The terrarium ; Beetle wings ; Insect women ; Butterflies ; The birds ; The nightingale and the rose -- Water. Marine life ; Venus ; Seashells, The siren ; The mermaid ; The eco mermaid ; The mermaid bride -- Epilogue / Nick Wright -- Scientific analysis. Science of the senses ; Anechoic chamber sound recordings ; Smell molecule recordings ; Dye analyses ; Radiography -- Checklist -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Captions and credits.

Summary:

"The Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, will reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum's collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies--from cutting-edge tools, artificial intelligence, and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes. Approximately 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on view, visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal. The exhibition will breathe new life into these storied objects through creative and immersive activations designed to convey the smells, sounds, textures, and motions of garments that can no longer directly interact with the body." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

ISBN:

9781588397775
1588397777

Subject:

Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions.
Fashion History Exhibitions.
Costume History Exhibitions.
Fashion New York (State) New York Exhibitions.
Costume New York (State) New York Exhibitions.
Flowers in art.
Nature in art.
Fleurs dans l'art.
Nature dans l'art.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bolton, Andrew, 1966- author, curator.
Barone, Margherita, contributor.
Borsch, Linda, contributor.
DeGregorio, William (Fashion historian), contributor.
Knight, Nick, 1958- contributor, photographer.
Kramer, Stephanie L., contributor.
Lackner, Rachel, contributor.
Lai, Junpeng, contributor.
Mazza, Christopher, contributor.
Miles, Ronald N., contributor.
Petersen, Glenn (Conservator), contributor.
Shaeffer, Elizabeth, contributor.
Tolaas, Sissel, 1961- contributor.
Kellen, Anna-Marie, photographer.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), hosting institution, issuing body.

Reawakening fashion

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order