Kawakubo, Rei

ReFusing Fashion [2008 1ST EDITION]

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2010.  Softcover in pictorial wraps. First Edition, First Printing. 8.5 x 11 inches. 138 pages with numerous black and white and color photographic images throughout documenting the landmark exhibition examining Kawakubo's work as a series of conceptual disruptions to fashion, taste, and form. The book presents over 40 garments, costumes from her collaboration with Merce Cunningham, runway imagery, photographs, and ephemera. Rather than a traditional fashion retrospective, the exhibition -- and this catalog -- position Kawakubo's practice within art, performance, and critical theory via contributions by Harold Koda, Sylvia Lavin, Judith Thurman, Michael Stone-Richards and an introduction by Marsha Miro. BOOK CONDITION: Near fine; a solid, tight, clean copy showing toning to margins of covers and spine (presents nicely in a new, clear, protective mylar cover).. Near Fine. Item #11210
ISBN: 097919914x

Price: $350.00