2008 art exhibition
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition held 7 May - 1 September 2008 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring clothing inspired by superhero costuming , along with actual costumes from superhero films . Sponsored by Giorgio Armani , the exhibit was curated by Andrew Bolton (supervised by Harold Koda ) of the Costume Center , and author Michael Chabon wrote material for the exhibition catalog. Backdrops for the exhibition were derived from Alex Ross 's Justice Nathan Crowley , Dermot Power , Gary Frank , and photographs of Thomas Jane as The Punisher , Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider , and Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman .
Contents The exhibition included many notable comicbook issues, mostly on loan from Michael E. Uslan and Metropolis Collectibles , including some of the most iconic costume imagery, such as Action Comics Superman ), Amazing Fantasy Spider-Man ), and The Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man series, having previously appeared on the cover of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (the first appearance of The Punisher), The Incredible Hulk Tales of Suspense Iron Man ), The X-Men Sensation Comics Wonder Woman ), Captain America Comics Batman Detective Comics Flash Comics The Flash (Jay Garrick) ), Marvel Spotlight The Fantastic Four The Thing ).
The actual movie costumes featured were that worn by Christopher Reeve as the title role in Superman Yvonne Blake , Rebecca Romijn as Mystique in X-Men: The Last Stand Tobey Maguire as the title role in Spider-Man 3 James Acheson , Lynda Carter as the television Wonder Woman Donfeld , Christian Bale as the Batman in The Dark Knight Lindy Hemming , Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man in Iron Man Adi Granov and Phil Saunders .
The main focus of the exhibit is how fashion designers have taken inspiration from superhero artwork. The designers comprise Bernard Willhelm, House of Moschino, Spyder Active Sports, Jean-Paul Gaultier , Thierry Mugler , Julien Macdonald , Giorgio Armani , John Galliano , House of Dior, Rick Owens , Pierre Cardin , House of Balenciaga and Nicolas Ghesquière , Gareth Pugh , Alexander McQueen , As Four, Walter Van Beirendock, Dolce & Gabbana , Descente Ltd., Speedo Fastskin, Hussain Chalayan, Atair Aerospace, and Dava J. Newman .
Reception Cathy Horyn in The New York Times 'camp " (which the Met would later use as a fashion exhibition theme ) as well as criticizing the paucity of examples from the 1960s and 1970s and the inclusion of only two American designers, but she compares it to the negative reception Thierry Mugler received for his metal and plastic armor that exposed women's most vulnerable body parts.[1] Layla Halabian in The Fader [2] Popsugar [3]
References
^ Horyn, Cathy (2008-05-09). "Power Dressing". The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03 . ^ Halabian, Layla (7 May 2018). "This Is What the Met Gala Red Carpet Looked Like 10 Years Ago". The Fader . ^ Prahl, Amanda (2019-05-06). "2008: "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"". POPSUGAR Fashion . Retrieved 2023-02-03 . External links The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll1/id/21588/rec/1
The Book https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Superheroes_Fashion_and_Fantasy
Curatorial talk by Andrew Bolton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWRNcQ5fLRM
Apple Podcasts Preview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/superheroes-fashion-and-fantasy-video/id430929257
Design Taxi https://designtaxi.com/article/100339/Superheroes-Fashion-and-Fantasy/
Trendland article https://trendland.com/superheroes-fashion-and-fantasy/
Places
Directors Miscellaneous Antiquities Paintings
1476 Altarpiece A Cavalryman A Vase of Flowers (1716) The Abduction of Rebecca The Accommodations of Desire The Actor (painting) Adoration of the Magi (Bosch, New York) Adoration of the Shepherds (Mantegna) The Aegean Sea The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez) Alexander Hamilton (Trumbull) The Allegory of Faith Allegory of the Planets and Continents Alpine Pool Altman Madonna America Today Ancient Rome (painting) Annunciation (Memling) Annunziata Polyptych Anthony van Dyck self portrait Approaching Thunder Storm Arab Woman (watercolor) Arcadia (painting) Ariadne (Giorgio de Chirico) Aristotle with a Bust of Homer Artillery (Roger de la Fresnaye) The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog At the Seaside Au Lapin Agile Autumn Ivy (Ogata Kenzan) Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) Bache Madonna Bain à la Grenouillère The Baker's Cart The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre Banquet in Silence (Marsden Hartley) Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme) A Basket of Clams (Winslow Homer) Beauty Revealed Black Iris (painting) Black Stork in a Landscape Boating (Édouard Manet) Annunciation (Botticelli, New York) Bouquet of Small Chrysanthemums (Léon Bonvin) Boy Carrying a Sword The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne Brigand and His Wife in Prayer Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara The Brioche Broadway and 42nd Street Broken Eggs Burg Weiler Altarpiece Butler Madonna By the Seashore Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos The Calm Sea (painting) Camouflage Self-Portrait Cannon Rock (painting) The Card Players Catania and Mount Etna Cemetery, New Mexico (Marsden Hartley) Cervara Altarpiece The Chess Players (Eakins painting) Children Playing with a Goat Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York) Christ Presented to the People (Il Sodoma) Christ with a Staff Claes Duyst van Voorhout Cloudy Mountains Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals The Collector of Prints (Edgar Degas) Comtesse de la Châtre Captain George K. H. Coussmaker Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise Cows Crossing a Ford Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John The Cup of Tea Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dancing Class The Dead Christ with Angels The Death of Harmonia The Death of Socrates The Defense of Champigny Delirious Hem The Denial of Saint Peter (Caravaggio) Diana and Cupid The Dream of Aeneas (Salvator Rosa) Dressing for the Carnival Madonna and Child (Duccio) Egyptian Woman with Earrings Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile The Empress Elizabeth of Russia on Horseback, Attended by a Page Entrance to a Dutch Port Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort with Their Tutor and Coachman Esther before Ahasuerus (Artemisia Gentileschi) Ethel Scull 36 Times The Experts (painting) The Falls of Niagara The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes Femme Lisant Ferry near Gorinchem The Fingernail Test Fish Market (Joachim Beuckelaer) The Fishing Boat Fishing Boats, Key West The Five Points (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Florinda (painting) The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting) The Fortune Teller (de La Tour) Fruit Dish and Glass The Funeral (painting) Fur Traders Descending the Missouri Garden at Sainte-Adresse George Washington (Trumbull) Gilbert Stuart (Goodridge) A Girl Asleep Girl with a Cat (Gwen John) Glass Blowers of Murano Golden Cock and Hen A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius The Great Sirens The Gulf Stream (painting) Harlequin with a Guitar The Harvest, Pontoise The Harvesters (painting) Haystacks:Autumn Head of Christ (Rembrandt, New York) The Heart of the Andes The Hermit (Il solitario) The Horse Fair Houses on the Achterzaan I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold In a Courtyard, Tangier The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter (Lemoine) Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog Irises screen Isaac Blessing Jacob (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout) Isle of the Dead (painting) Italian Hill Town (Arthur B. Davies) Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman Joy of Life (Valadon) Juan Legua July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910 The Kearsarge at Boulogne The Lacemaker (Maes) Lachrymae (Frederic Leighton) Lady at the Tea Table Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) Lake George (John Frederick Kensett) Landscape with Sky The Last Communion of Saint Jerome (Botticelli) Lehman Madonna Lilacs in a Window Lobster Fishermen (Marsden Hartley) The Lovesick Maiden Lukas Spielhausen Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (Mary Cassatt) Madame Élisabeth de France Madame Grand (Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun) Madonna and Child (Bellini, New York, 1485–1490) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (Raphael) Magdalene with Two Flames The Maidservant Maine Coast Majas on a Balcony Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga The Marriage of the Virgin (Michelino da Besozzo) The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara (Lucas Cranach the Elder) The Masquerade Dress The Matador Saluting Max Schmitt in a Single Scull Mérode Altarpiece Merry company with two men and two women Mezzetino (painting) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting) Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter Model by the Wicker Chair Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley Moonlight, Wood Island Light Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen Moses Striking the Rock Mother and Child (Cassatt) Mountain Stream (John Singer Sargent) Mountain with Red House Movement No. 5, Provincetown Houses Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes Mrs. Atkinson (Gwen John) Mrs. Beckington (Alice Beckington) Mrs. Hugh Hammersley The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) A Musician and His Daughter The Musicians (Caravaggio) Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (Memling) Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi Night-Shining White Northeaster (painting) Nude Before a Mirror Oedipus and the Sphinx Old Trees, Level Distance Pity (William Blake) Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc Exhibitions
