Detail View: The AMICA Library: "The Souper Dress"
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1995.178.3
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Costume and Jewelry
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Name-CRT:
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American
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Title:
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Dress
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Title Type:
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Object name
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Title:
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"The Souper Dress"
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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ca. 1966 - 1967
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Creation Start Date:
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1966
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Creation End Date:
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1967
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Materials and Techniques:
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paper
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Classification Term:
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Main dress-Womenswear
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Dimensions:
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L. at center back 32 in. (81.3 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1995.178.3
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Credit Line:
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Purchase, Isabel Shults Fund and Martin and Caryl Horowitz and Hearst Corporation Gifts, 1995
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Rights:
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Context:
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As art historian Marco Livingstone has stressed, Pop Art was never a circumscribed movement with membership and manifestos. Rather, it was a sensibility emergent in the 1950s and rampant in the 1960s. Andy Warhol (who began his career as a fashion illustrator) had been painting Campbell's soup cans since 1962. Such advertising icons, along with cartoons and billboards, yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Fashion quickly embraced the spirit of Pop, playing an important role in its dissemination. The paper dresses of 1966 - 67 were throwaways, open to advertising and the commercial. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ci1995.178.3.R.tif
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