Word: cavallo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Titled "She Walks in Splendor," and covering the years 1550-1950, the exhibition was assembled, in the words of Textiles Curator Adolph S. Cavallo, to demonstrate visual beauty, which "in the world of the costume artist becomes a quality that can best be described as elegance or splendor...
...Curator Cavallo is fascinated by the affinities between the clothes and the architecture of the same period. He is not concerned with analogues of shape-stovepipe hats and railroad smokestacks, skyscrapers and sack dresses-but the way a period's characteristic modes of thought and feeling similarly influence the look of a building, or a table, or a woman...