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Heavenly Bodies -- HIPPO TEST: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

by Andrew Bolton
Metropolitan. May 2018. 336p. ISBN 9781588396457. $65. FASHION
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Breaking all records at the Met, this exhibition that considered how fashion engages with, represents, signifies, and empowers Catholic faith. As is usual with Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the translation of the exhibit to the pages of a book is accomplished in lush and extravagant design, offering readers a revealing text and both large and detailed images of the textiles.
VERDICT Essential for all fashion and religion collections. General readers who have followed the flurry accompanying the exhibition will also be placing holds.
Reviewed by Neal Wyatt , Apr 01, 2024
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