{"id":4219,"date":"2009-02-03T03:27:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2009-02-08T02:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:49:19","slug":"colin-corbetts-decorated-jockstraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/03\/colin-corbetts-decorated-jockstraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Corbett&#8217;s decorated jockstraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7497174268052627940-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com\/site\/artstrapped\/HOME\/9straps.jpg?attredirects=0&amp;auth=ANoY7cofZuRHc_PacTyFvdSF575Q8813vav8HoJqEqqdoeWLqrZ9vmPNgHzhcRRydES3f0kIgSgHzo523T68y9s5CkuDgeI-vplqC8F4d2fIn7M7dC-kBJNenRNkG3xJM52aFKgnhKgTCcGipsCahyZddnaHPf127Yi88ujIz0mRUkbt12y2u95CKb3BMnNTeuy8TFQJjdutaJWBoS1SxrFvaLjIIza7Vg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4220\" title=\"corbett1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett1.jpg\" alt=\"corbett1.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett1.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett1-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I missed posting something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcc.arts.ac.uk\/48345.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Strapped: The Art of the Decorated Jockstrap<\/em><\/a> while the exhibition was running last month at the London College of Communications but better late than never with this. Designer Colin Corbett&#8217;s playful additions to the humble jockstrap hit so many spots of obsession it&#8217;s like he read my mind: black clothes, swords, peacocks, <em>jockstraps<\/em>&#8230; You can see more of them <a href=\"https:\/\/7497174268052627940-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com\/site\/artstrapped\/HOME\/9straps.jpg?attredirects=0&amp;auth=ANoY7cofZuRHc_PacTyFvdSF575Q8813vav8HoJqEqqdoeWLqrZ9vmPNgHzhcRRydES3f0kIgSgHzo523T68y9s5CkuDgeI-vplqC8F4d2fIn7M7dC-kBJNenRNkG3xJM52aFKgnhKgTCcGipsCahyZddnaHPf127Yi88ujIz0mRUkbt12y2u95CKb3BMnNTeuy8TFQJjdutaJWBoS1SxrFvaLjIIza7Vg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and he talks about some of the designs <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/artstrapped\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7497174268052627940-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com\/site\/artstrapped\/HOME\/9straps.jpg?attredirects=0&amp;auth=ANoY7cofZuRHc_PacTyFvdSF575Q8813vav8HoJqEqqdoeWLqrZ9vmPNgHzhcRRydES3f0kIgSgHzo523T68y9s5CkuDgeI-vplqC8F4d2fIn7M7dC-kBJNenRNkG3xJM52aFKgnhKgTCcGipsCahyZddnaHPf127Yi88ujIz0mRUkbt12y2u95CKb3BMnNTeuy8TFQJjdutaJWBoS1SxrFvaLjIIza7Vg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4221\" title=\"corbett2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett2.jpg\" alt=\"corbett2.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett2.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/corbett2-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coveyeditions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Covey<\/a>, meanwhile, turns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coveyeditions.com\/Sculpture\/underwearJock.html\" target=\"_blank\">jockstraps into art<\/a> by making unique torso casts of their wearers. He also has a fine collection of other homoerotic work, most of which is for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-gay-artists-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The gay artists archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/26\/game-boy\/\" target=\"_self\">Game boy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed posting something about Strapped: The Art of the Decorated Jockstrap while the exhibition was running last month at the London College of Communications but better late than never with this. Designer Colin Corbett&#8217;s playful additions to the humble jockstrap hit so many spots of obsession it&#8217;s like he read my mind: black clothes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/03\/colin-corbetts-decorated-jockstraps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colin Corbett&#8217;s decorated jockstraps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,36,57,5],"tags":[203,204,201,444,63],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-eye-candy","category-fashion","category-gay","tag-colin-corbett","tag-dennis-covey","tag-jockstrap","tag-peacocks","tag-swords"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-163","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}