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Killer heels : the art of the high-heeled shoe

Title: Killer heels : the art of the high-heeled shoe / edited by Lisa Small ; essays by Lisa Small, Stefano Tonchi, and Caroline Weber ; new photography by Jay Zukerkorn ; with contributions by Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh; Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser; Brian Atwood; Zach Gold; Zaha Hadid; Julian Hakes; Pierre Hardy; Steven Klein; Nick Knight; Rem D. Koolhaas; Masaya Kushino; Alessandra Lanvin; Chau Har Lee; Christian Louboutin; Julia Lundsten; Marilyn Minter; Rashaad Newsome; Cat Potter; Winde Rienstra; Elizabeth Semmelhack; and René van den Berg and Karin Janssen.
Publication: Brooklyn, New York : Brooklyn Museum ; New York, NY : in association with DelMonico Books Prestel, 2014.

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224 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Lisa Small, curator of exhibitions, Brooklyn Museum. Itinerary: Brooklyn Museum, September 10, 2014-February 15, 2015; Albuquerque Museum, May 30-August 9, 2015.
"Killer Heels explores fashion's most provocative accessory. From the high platform chopines of sixteenth-century Italy to the glamorous stilettos on today's runways and red carpets, the exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe's rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination. As fashion statement, fetish object, instrument of power, and outlet of artistic expression for both the designer and the wearer, throughout the ages the high-heeled shoe has gone through many shifts in style and symbolism. Deadly sharp stilettos, architecturally inspired wedges and platforms, and a number of artfully crafted shoes that defy categorization are featured among the more than 160 historical and contemporary heels on loan from designers, from the renowned Brooklyn Museum costume collection housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from the Bata Shoe Museum. Designers and design houses represented in Killer Heels include Manolo Blahnik, Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo, Zaha Hadid X United Nude, Iris van Herpen X United Nude, Christian Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, André Perugia, Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli, Noritaka Tatehana, Vivienne Westwood, and Pietro Yantorny. Presented alongside the objects in the exhibition are six specially commissioned short films inspired by high heels. The filmmakers are Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Zach Gold, Steven Klein, Nick Knight, Marilyn Minter, and Rashaad Newsome"--Publisher description.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 217).

Call Number

JQG 15-704

ISBN

9783791353807
3791353802
9780872731776 (paperback)
0872731774 (paperback)

LCCN

2014007906

OCLC

876370729

Title

Killer heels : the art of the high-heeled shoe / edited by Lisa Small ; essays by Lisa Small, Stefano Tonchi, and Caroline Weber ; new photography by Jay Zukerkorn ; with contributions by Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh; Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser; Brian Atwood; Zach Gold; Zaha Hadid; Julian Hakes; Pierre Hardy; Steven Klein; Nick Knight; Rem D. Koolhaas; Masaya Kushino; Alessandra Lanvin; Chau Har Lee; Christian Louboutin; Julia Lundsten; Marilyn Minter; Rashaad Newsome; Cat Potter; Winde Rienstra; Elizabeth Semmelhack; and René van den Berg and Karin Janssen.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Brooklyn Museum ; New York, NY : in association with DelMonico Books Prestel, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 217).

Added Author

Small, Lisa, editor.

Tonchi, Stefano, contributor.

Brooklyn Museum, host institution.

Albuquerque Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 15-704

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