Thursday, October 19, 2006

Are Clothes Modern?


I just found the photo above of an installation in Bernard Rudofsky's 1944-45 MOMA exhibit, "Are Clothes Modern?". The photo was in Leila W. Kinney's article, "Fashion and Fabrication in Modern Architecture" (available on JSTOR). Here's what she has to say about the photo:

"Installation view of 'Are Clothes Modern?' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art organized by Bernard Rudofsky, 28 November 1944 to 4 March 1945. Analytical diagram of the modern business ensemble, with twenty-four pockets and seventy buttons. Demonstrating the decorative aspects of modern clothing, Rudofsky's label states: 'What glass beads are to the savage, buttons and pockets are to the civilized.'"

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