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

ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS, T.H. (1903-1976) was a British-born architect and furniture designer.

[265] pp.

Alfred A. Knopf

1947

First Edition

8 5/8" x 5 7/8"

Jacket drawing by Mary Petty

VG/ VG

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