Does the flea market really have fleas, the Roman Emperor was a CosPlay enthusiast, and a flowing wig was a symbol of male status?
Kyoko Nakano, Japan's best-selling art author, interprets men's clothing in classical Western painting from an ingenious perspective, revealing the ridiculous fashion "black history" in the picture frame.
Japan's best-selling art author Kyoko Nakano
She is Japan's best-selling art author and this work topped the Japanese Amazon charts. As a lecturer at Waseda University, she has a deep academic background in art history, but she has a restless heart.
Author Kyoko Nakano
She is Kyoko Nakano, a "atypical" art popularizer who has a strong knowledge of history and art, and interprets Western classical painting from an unexpectedly unique perspective. With a smooth and humorous writing and talking about art to the essentials, each of Kyoko Nakano's new books is a novel adventure in the art world.
This time, she is always curious, pointing the tip of the pen at the men's clothing in the famous paintings, reasoning and deciphering the 30 world famous paintings, skillfully combining painting art, fashion anecdotes, and humanistic history, taking you to know the laughter behind the "eight-character beards" in the famous paintings.
The men in the famous paintings
Hundreds of years ago, the beauty-loving men, all kinds of strange costumes took turns, in the era of no electronic equipment, dressed themselves up in a fancy way, stood in front of the drawing board posed pose, clicked "selfies", and entered the history of art. Through famous paintings and proud faces, Kyoko Nakano takes readers into a colorful art world and discovers the little secrets hidden behind the oil paints.
John the Baptist was a punk?
Holy Roman Emperor Happy Cosplay?
And David of Israel prefers designer bags?
Punk-costumed John | Emperor playing cosplay | David carrying a designer bag
At that time, high heels were the patent of men, and only the court nobles were eligible to use red on shoes; 400 years ago, European playboys used to sleep at night and put their beards into special "whisker belts", and sprinkled spices, dyes and even gold powder on their beards... All kinds of inconceivables are in The Pen of Kyoko Nakano. In this book, she tells you that the many paintings in the art museum are actually not serious at all.
Fashion black history in classical painting
The painter has left an important clue with his imaginative men's clothes, allowing us to get a glimpse of the style of that era, in addition to the development and evolution of fashion, but also the social structure and humanistic history behind the era.
This is both one of the most fashionable art books,
At the same time, it is also the most artistic fashion book.
"The Man in the Picture Frame" book shadow
When Western elegance meets Japanese style spit
In this book, Kyoko Nakano can always poke at your strange laughs. She has a strong storytelling ability, burying the Japanese otaku style spit in the analysis of art and fashion, so that the western classical painting art that is high above is suddenly interesting.
She summed up Napoleon's requirements for his portrait as "it doesn't matter if the face is painted even if it doesn't look like me, the most important thing is to show my magnificent demeanor"; and the pompous ring collar as big as a wheel reminds her of the umbrella lizard.
For 15th-century European men who wore two-foot shoes and walked without wrestling, Kyoko Nakano spared no effort to express her respect for the five bodies... "The value of popularity is often in enduring various inconveniences", "the highest state of men's clothing is military uniform" and other golden sentences are also endless.
Sky-piercing shoes | A ring collar as big as a wheel
In addition to the content, the binding design of the book is also interesting and practical. After removing the outer cover, you will find that the book is in a bare ridge lock line package, which is completely different from ordinary spine glue.
The bare-ridged lock line of "The Man in the Picture Frame"
Its advantage is that it can enlarge the picture as much as possible, which can ensure that the page can be turned over 180 degrees without dead angles, and will not fold any details of the spread picture. This binding also has a better page-turning feel, which can be completely spread out on the tabletop, free of hands to read.
In addition, it also uses the folio of japanese pocket books, designers borrowed the characteristics of Japanese comic books, like this one can not stop picking up the art book, of course, to be easy to carry, at any time to read.
From any point of view, this will not be a serious and orthodox art guide, but without opening it, how can you happily appreciate the charm of art and harvest a basket of interesting and informative literary and historical knowledge?
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