Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy - Artists Panel - Part 2 of 7
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Channel: The Met · 2008 · Education
Learn more about the exhibition: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/superheroes/index.asp This all-day event of lectures and panel discussions, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," brings together leading international scholars, critics, and designers to discuss the world of costumes and comics. Themes include the appropriation of the uniform, the adaptation of superhero costumes for the screen, the creation of modern mythologies, and the role of the superhero as metaphor in contemporary society. Artists Panel Alex Ross, comic artist; Stanford Carpenter, assistant professor, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and John Cassaday, artist and writer, Astonishing X-Men and Planetary
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