Gauguin's Skirt
by Eisenman, Stephen F
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0500017662
- ISBN 13
- 9780500017661
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Cloth, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Gauguin's Skirt is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late nineteenth century, and colonialism new and old. It is concerned with Paul Gauguin's practices as an artist and with the practice of daily life in fin de siecle Polynesia. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, Gauguin's Skirt enters the domains of biography and mystery." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Exotic scenarios; Sex in Tahiti; Death in the Marquesas; Primitivism and difference.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124509
- Title
- Gauguin's Skirt
- Author
- Eisenman, Stephen F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0500017662
- ISBN 13
- 9780500017661
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Genre & Subject / Erotic; Movements / Post-Impressionism; Pacific / Oceanic, Aboriginal;
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