cover image What Can You Do with a Paper Bag?: Hats, Wigs, Masks, Crowns, Helmets and Headdresses Inspired by Worrks of Art from Metropolitan Museum of Art

What Can You Do with a Paper Bag?: Hats, Wigs, Masks, Crowns, Helmets and Headdresses Inspired by Worrks of Art from Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chronicle Books, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Judith Cressy. Chronicle Books, $15.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-3220-5

The humblest of materials transform the pedestrian into the sublime in What Can You Do with a Paper Bag? by Judith Cressy, photos by Maria Quiroga and Christine A. Butler, illus. by Edward Heins. ""Perseus' Winged Helmut,"" ""George Washington's Hair"" and a ""Curly Baroque Wig"" number among these 21 chic chapeaux, all inspired by paintings and sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Sept.)