Costume Art: Redressing The Met

Fashion transforms our bodies. Exploring this concept through the lens of age, size, gender, and disability, Costume Art demonstrates how the clothed body is central to artistic expression and representation.

The luxuriously designed book by Andrew Bolton features a diecut cover, three specialty papers, debossed details, and metallic silver foils. New assemblages - created specifically for this volume by artist Julie Wolfe and  composed of photographs by stylist and designer Nathalie Agussol - highlight the connection between art and fashion through collage, overlay, and juxtaposition. .

• Andrew Bolton is Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Introduction by Llewellyn Negrin.
• Epilogue by Andrew Solomon.
• Contributions by Ayaka Iida, Samar Hejazi, Stephanie Kramer, Miriam Peterson, Nathan Rich, Julie Wolfe and Tracy Yoshimura.
• Photographer Paul Westlake, Anna-Marie Kellen and Nathalie Agussol.
• 420 pages.
• 11" x 14"