Price: £200
Subject: Art & Architecture
Published Date: 1929
Stock Number: 68850
(Your basket is currently empty)From Nudity to Raiment.
Description: FIRST EDITION, with 12 monochrome and 12 coloured plates, including world map frontispiece, and numerous illustrations, endpapers with faintly toned offsetting, pp. [xx], viii, [ii], 303, 4to, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at lower corner of both boards, dustjacket separated along joint-folds, internally tape-repaired, slight tears at flap folds and rear panel corner with loss, good [with] portrait photograph of Hiler, and copy of group photograph of The Jockey regulars, including Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau and Ezra Pound,Publication Details: W. & G. Foyle Ltd, 1929
Notes: Hilaire Harzberg Hiler was an American in Paris in the 1920s, a painter, muralist, costume designer, jazz pianist, often performing with his pet monkey, and proprietor of the popular ex-patriate hang-out, frequented by Miller, Hemingway, Kiki and Nin among others, The Jockey. Though best known for his colour theories, Hiler was a keen collector of costume books and, with his father, Meyer, complied a Bibliography of Costume in 1939. Here, his interest in costume, anthropology and psychology combine in an exhaustive global study regarding the origin of clothing, including sections on tattooing,...more
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