About time : fashion & duration / Andrew Bolton ; with Jan Glier Reeder, Jessica Regan, and Amanda Garfinkel ; introduction by Theodore Martin ; short story by Michael Cunningham ; photographs by Nicholas Alan Cope
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020Description: xxxi, 358 pages, xxxiii-lxxxiii : illustrations ; 32 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781588396884
- 391 BOL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 391 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100643205 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Traces fashions from 1870 to the present along a conceptual, disruptive, and nontraditional timeline of fashion history
About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a disruptive fashion chronology that conflates notions of past, present, and future.
Virginia Woolf serves as "ghost narrator," and excerpts from her novels reflect on the passage of time with each subsequent pairing. A new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours , recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions. Scholar Theodore Martin analyzes theoretical responses to the nature of time, underscoring that time is not simply a sequence of historical events. Fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope captures 120 fashions with sublime black-and-white photography. This stunning book reveals fashion's paradoxical connection to linear notions of time.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(October 29, 2020-February 7, 2021)
This catalogue is published in conjunction with "About Time: Fashion and Duration", on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 7 through September 7, 2020. The Costume Institute's Spring 2020 exhibition, on the occasion of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 150th anniversary.
Plates: LIX - LXXIX
Fashion not only reflects and represents the spirit of the times, it also changes and develops with the times. About Time takes as its starting point the 1870s-when major developments in the establishment of standard time shifted the measurement of time from the local to the global-and examines the temporal impulses of fashion over 150 years to the present. Sections combining thought-provoking texts and newly commissioned photography explore the fugitive rhythm of fashion governed by the shared experience of "objective time," measured by the clock and calendar, and the personal experience of "subjective time," expressed through clothes that mark events of a person's life. Fashion is examined through the lenses of the marginal, the minority, and the postcolonial, advancing the concept of time as a metaphor for difference. Fashions created after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 are explored through the postmodern concepts of volatility, multiplicity, immediacy, and disposability. While fashion has embraced and benefited from the around-the-clock potentialities of digital capitalism, it has also suffered from its unquenchable functioning. Addressing this negation of time, the book concludes with a section on the future of fashion, which advocates for a slowing down of fashion, and a re-emphasis on the values inherent in its creation and consumption. Exhibition: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (07.05.- 07.09.2020)