Eighth R.L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress: Lee Alexander McQueen | Cycles of Inspiration in Dance of the Twisted Bull

In conjunction with the exhibition Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse, renowned scholars will examine creativeness, artistic course of action, and innovation in vogue and art to even more look at the interdisciplinary impulse that outlined McQueen’s occupation, legacy, and resources of inspiration. 

The bullfight, or corrida, motivated McQueen’s Spanish-affected Spring/Summer 2002 collection, The Dance of the Twisted Bull. The costume of the male matador informed the collection’s silhouettes, with accents drawn from the traditional costume of woman flamenco dancers. McQueen interpreted the corrida from an outsider’s perspective, but followed in the footsteps of Spanish artists Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso, who the two drew upon the bullfight in their own methods. Co-curator Clarissa M. Esguerra elaborates on McQueen’s selection, even though Britt Salvesen, Curator and Head of the Wallis Annenberg Images Office and the Prints and Drawings Office, discusses Goya and Picasso’s artistic procedures in creating their respective La Tauromaquia print collection. Donor and collector Regina J. Drucker explores history, cycles of inspiration, and artistic expression that hook up McQueen with artists ahead of him whilst reflecting on how her Mexican-American heritage drew her to accumulating the get the job done of McQueen now in LACMA’s everlasting collection.

In reaction to the global pandemic, the Eighth Triennial R.L. Shep Symposium is presented on YouTube as a cost-free movie sequence, produced from Might by means of August 2022 on the past Tuesday of each month.

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R.L. Shep Triennial Symposia are supported by the R.L. Shep Symposium Endowment for Costume and Textiles, LACMA.