F. Holland Day: suffering the ideal / with an essay by James Crump
1995, 1st Edition. Santa Fe, N.M. : Twin Palms. Fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Literally as new, still in protective shrink wrap. Red remainder mark on the bottom edge. Item #341159
Physical description: 141 pages: illustrations; 36 cm. Contents: Suffering the ideal -- Bibliomania -- Day: what kind of pictorialist? -- Day and the literature of British decadence : Walter Pater ; John Addington Symonds ; Oscar Wilde ; Edward Carpenter -- The truth of masks: self and other in Day's portraiture : Of men and boys: day dreams of eternal youth ; Other Victorians: women ; Orientalism and Day's portraits of Blacks ; Picturing the occult: Day's psychic portraits ; Day as other -- The sacred subjects a crisis in representation -- Final compensations: myth and the neoclassical body -- Plates. Subjects: Day, F. Holland (Fred Holland) 1864-1933. Photography, Artistic. Photography of youth. Photography of the nude.
Price: €50.00