Morimura, Yasumasa. Daughter of Art History. Photographs by Yasumasa Morimura. Introduction by Donald Kuspit.

Aperture, 2003. First edition, first printing. Like new. Illustrated boards, not issued with dust jacket. Custom made 4-mil polyester jacket. An homage to art history with take-offs on famous paintings, most featuring the artist in outlandish self-portraits. Time magazine commented, “Combining photography, painting and computer manipulation, each piece is a wicked homage, turning art history into a guided vanity mirror…The farce is lavish and precise.”  Morimura, born in 1951 in Osaka, graduated from Kyoto City University and came to the U.S., where he studied at Philadelphia College of Art and Columbia University. His photographs concern postmodern issues of originality and self, as well as race, gender, and sexuality in art.  128 pages.   Not to be confused with later reprint.