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SUPERHEROES FASHION & FANTASY
Company: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Author: Andrew Bolton, essay by Michael Chabon
Format: Softcover
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 10" H x 8 1/4" W x 1" D
Estimated Current Market Value: $45
Description:
This book examines the influence on fashion of the costumes of superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Captain America and Spider-Man, as represented in comic books, film, and television. Included are movie costumes as well as radical fashions in which designers go beyond iconography to explore issues of identity, sexuality and patriotism.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008.
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