EAN: 9780141991252

PORTER CHARLIE WHAT ARTISTS WEAR

*A Financial Times Book of the Year*   'The first time I opened What Artists Wear   I gasped
with pleasure. Imagine it as a kind of punk cousin to John Berger's Ways of Seeing   liberally
illustrated with the most astonishing images of artists  decked out in finery or rags ... It
transported me to somewhere glamorous  exciting  even revolutionary' Olivia Laing  Guardian 
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of
artists  garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression  storytelling 
resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are.  In What Artists Wear 
style luminary Charlie Porter takes us on an invigorating  eye-opening journey through the
iconic outfits worn by artists  in the studio  on stage  at work  at home and at play. From
Yves Klein's spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman
from Andy Warhol's signature denim to Charlotte Prodger's casualwear  Porter's roving eye picks
out the magical  revealing details in the clothes he encounters  weaving together a new way of
understanding artists  and of dressing ourselves.  Part love letter  part guide to chic  and
featuring generous photographic spreads  What Artists Wear is both a manual and a manifesto  a
radical  gleeful  inspiration to see the world anew-and find greater pleasure and possibility
in the clothes we all wear.

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