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the reading of garments

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the reading of garments

stories about clothes

aline
May 23, 2023
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The other day someone gifted me the book What Artists Wear by Charlie Parker, published 2021 by Penguin Books, which I’d been meaning to get my hands on. Because a) I work with fabric and sometimes use garments in my art, and because b) I’m fascinated by clothes.
Parker, a fashion journalist with great knowledge of and deep connections to the arts (he was a Turner Prize juror in 2019) writes brilliantly about the meaning and the symbolic, political and artistic connotations of clothes worn and/or utilized by artists throughout history.

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