"Mona Lisa's Mustache A Dissection Of Modern Art" 1947 ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS, T.H. (SIGNED)

ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS, T.H. Signed on FFEP [265] pp. Alfred A. Knopf 1947 First Edition 8 5/8" x 5 7/8" Jacket drawing by Mary Petty VG/ VG Scroll Down for (10) Additional Scans: In Good-bye, Mr. Chippendale, Robsjohn-Gibbings skewered the antiques craze and praised modern design. It follows that he would prefer conceptual modern art to traditional. He does not … at least in this book, which is consistently more humorous and fun than it is lacerating. In it, he accuses Dali, Kandinsky, et al. to be engaged in a vast conspiracy against no less a principle than democracy itself. In a twist worthy of The Da Vinci Code, Robsjohn-Gibbings seeks to expose a clandestine society whose mission is to make art incomprehensible by replacing it with primitive art and sorcery. “Schiaparelli designed a hat like a leg of mutton, and one like an old shoe. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes wore both, but—with superb restraint—separately.” T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (1903–1976) was a British-born architect and furniture d