{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-lady-lisa-lyon-1983","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe — Lady Lisa Lyon (1983)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Viking Press, New York, 1983\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Foreword by Sam Wagstaff; text by Bruce Chatwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition, first printing (cloth issue)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black cloth, photographic dust jacket (price-clipped)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e approx. 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0-670-43012-9\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Mapplethorpe on the half-title.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1980 and 1983 Mapplethorpe photographed Lisa Lyon, winner of the first World Women's Bodybuilding Championship in 1979, again and again: in the studio and outdoors, nude and in costume. Lady was the book that came out of that collaboration, and his first monograph from a trade publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts subject is the body as something made: shaped by training, then shaped again by the camera into the classical forms Mapplethorpe prized. Bruce Chatwin's introduction treats Lyon as a performer of many selves, and read now the book anticipates by several years the idea of gender as performance that Judith Butler set out in 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894709879101,"sku":"DI-001","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed.jpg?v=1793689121","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-lady-lisa-lyon-1983","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}