AngloMania:
Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
AngloMania focuses
on British fashion from 1976 to 2006, a period of
astounding creativity and experimentation. Over the
past 30 years, British fashion has been defined by
a knowing and self-conscious historicism. In their
search for novelty, designers have looked to past
styles with an appetite that is as audacious as it
is rapacious. Focusing on their postmodern, historicizing
tendencies, this exhibition presents a series of
tableaux based on Britain's rich artistic traditions.
The irony of satirical prints, the romance of landscape
paintings, and the glamour and bravado of grand manner
portraits are evoked through a wide spectrum of British
designers.
The exhibition is set in the Metropolitan
Museum's English period rooms-the Annie Laurie
Aitken Galleries-to create a potent dialogue between
the past and the present.
The exhibition and its accompanying book are made
possible by Burberry.
Anglomania
defined on Wikipedia.
May 30 , 2006 |