Detail View: The AMICA Library: Wrap
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.CI52.5.2
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Costume and Jewelry
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Creator Name:
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Reboux, Caroline
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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Designer
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Creator Dates/Places:
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French, 1835 - 1927
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Designed by Caroline Reboux
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Title:
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Wrap
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1920s
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Creation Start Date:
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1920
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Creation End Date:
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1929
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Materials and Techniques:
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silk, amber
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Classification Term:
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Outerwear-Womenswear
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Dimensions:
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L. at center front 47 in. (119.5 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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CI 52.5.2
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Miss Isabel Shults, 1952
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Rights:
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Context:
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Giant paratriangles of color form a cape with deliberate historical references. Multicolored capes began during or before the time of Old Testament Joseph; Reboux's color is purposely constrained. She achieved the crucial shape of the triangle - Brancusi's 'Bird in Space' is also a triangle - for the cape on the body. Laid flat, the cape is of a slightly irregular and ungainly shape, but Reboux has us direct our reading to the configuration on the body and not on the plane. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.ci.52.5.2.R.tif
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