{"product_id":"kawakubo-rei-comme-des-garcons-art-of-the-in-between-met-2017","title":"REI KAWAKUBO \/ COMME DES GARÇONS — Art of the In-Between, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eIssued for the Costume Institute exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 4 May to 4 September 2017. Distinct from the accompanying hardback catalogue, this was the publication carried through the exhibition itself. Its contents organise Kawakubo’s work through nine states of “in-betweenness,” including Absence\/Presence, Fashion\/Antifashion, Self\/Other and Clothes\/Not Clothes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKawakubo founded Comme des Garçons in 1969 and repeatedly disrupted conventional ideas of clothing, beauty and the body. The exhibition presented garments less as fashion history than as a changing field between sculpture, architecture and dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe guide retains the exhibition’s provisional function: text, object list and floor plan compressed into a portable paper structure. An institutional map that has outlived the exhibition it was designed to navigate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.75 × 28 cm folded; 21.5 × 28 cm unfolded. 40 pages. Original offset-printed exhibition guide on lightweight paper; folded narrow-format construction with exhibition map and typographic cover. Condition: good. Light handling and surface marks, minor edge and corner softening, and a small crease to the lower-left corner. Original folds remain intact; internally complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54174395990354,"sku":"KAWAKUBO-MET-GUIDE-2017","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kawakubo_Rei.CommedesCarcons.ArtoftheIn-Between.2017.jpg?v=1785824749","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kawakubo-rei-comme-des-garcons-art-of-the-in-between-met-2017","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}