Designed by Ji Eon Kang / Dress / Spring 1997

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Creator Name: Kang, Ji Eon
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: American, born 1973
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Ji Eon Kang
Title: Dress
Title Type: Object name
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1997
Creation End Date: 1997
Creation Date: Spring 1997
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Classification Term: Main dress-Womenswear
Materials and Techniques: silk, metal
Dimensions: L. at center back 29 1/4 in. (74.3 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1997.250.6
Credit Line: Gift of Richard Martin, 1997
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

For a class assignment at Parsons School of Design students were asked to create a garment from a recycled object, an objet trouvé. Kang chose the daily admission buttons of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each button depicts a letter, but the letter is further endowed with the identity of the Metropolitan, and is a kind of coin minted expressly for entry into the Museum. Kang reused an object that was itself already a multilayered tissue of readings and meanings. The encyclopedic museum represents eternity, or at least the monumental span of art history. The paradox of the daily admission button is that it allows only limited access to the timelessness of art.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1997.250.6
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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