Detail View: The AMICA Library: Dress
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1997.250.6
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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 Name:
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Kang, Ji Eon
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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Designer
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Creator Dates/Places:
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American, born 1973
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Designed by Ji Eon Kang
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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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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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Spring 1997
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Creation Start Date:
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1997
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Creation End Date:
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1997
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Materials and Techniques:
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silk, metal
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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 29 1/4 in. (74.3 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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1997.250.6
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Richard Martin, 1997
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Rights:
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Context:
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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. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ci1997.260.6.R.tif
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