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"The Souper Dress"

1966–67
Not on view
As art historian Marco Livingstone has stressed, Pop Art was never a circumscribed movement with membership and manifestos. Rather, it was a sensibility emergent in the 1950s and rampant in the 1960s. Andy Warhol (who began his career as a fashion illustrator) had been painting Campbell's soup cans since 1962. Such advertising icons, along with cartoons and billboards, yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Fashion quickly embraced the spirit of Pop, playing an important role in its dissemination. The paper dresses of 1966 - 67 were throwaways, open to advertising and the commercial.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: "The Souper Dress"
  • Date: 1966–67
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: paper
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Isabel Shults Fund and Martin and Caryl Horwitz and Hearst Corporation Gifts, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.178.3
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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