De Openstaande Vrouw (Woman Ajar)
1985
$162.00
First edition of De Openstaande Vrouw (Woman Ajar) by Marcel Marien (1985). Medium format hardcover in very good condition. Slight wear due to age, hence the minor toning on the inner pages. Please see photos for reference.
About
Marcel Mariën was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. This book, comprising just over a hundred photographs (with a short introduction by Patrick Hughes), is a hymn to the female body, an offbeat blazon from face to breasts to vulva, all adorned with various disturbing accessories: cherries, scissors, the Eiffel Tower, a pornographic deck of cards and, above, a mirror (one with her self-portrait).
