CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/11/2018

Extreme clothing in the visual arts in 'Fashion Drive'

Giovanni Boldini's 1897 oil painting, "Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou," is reproduced from Fashion Drive: Extreme Clothing in the Visual Arts, Kerber Verlag's remarkable 500-year survey of fashion history as told through artist representations. Ranging from suits of polished medieval armor to erotic Renaissance paintings, seventeenth-century Swiss mourning attire, film stills by the Lumière Brothers, Dadaist costumes and contemporary works by the likes of Charles Ray, Wolfgang Tillmans, K8 Hardy and Inez van Lamsweerde, this book is simply fascinating.