FOUCHET (Max-Pol) - Lot 130

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FOUCHET (Max-Pol) - Lot 130
FOUCHET (Max-Pol) The Art of Love in India. Text and photographs by Max-Pol Fouchet. Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1957. Large quarto (approx. 28 × 22 cm), publisher’s cardboard binding, color-illustrated photographic dust jacket, 95 pp. and pages of captions. Extensive photographic illustrations in heliogravure, mostly full-page, based on the author’s photographs. First edition. The book was first published in Lausanne in 1957 before being reprinted, in a much more common format, by Gallimard in 1967. A beautiful photographic book devoted to eroticism in Indian sacred sculpture, notably the large sculptural complexes of the Ellora and Elephanta Island temples and the depictions of Shiva and Parvati. Fouchet views these sculptures not merely as erotic representations, but within their religious, symbolic, and architectural contexts. The Guilde du Livre edition is a true photographer’s book: 95 pages, featuring a remarkable series of black-and-white photogravures, often full-page. A specialized bibliography describes the work with three fold-out sheets of captions and notes the existence of two dust jacket variants, including the blue and orange version shown here. A good copy. The hardcover and interior appear well-preserved. The original dust jacket is preserved but shows fairly pronounced signs of wear: scuffing, creases, small tears, and marginal losses, particularly at the head and foot and the corners; a small, superficial loss at the top of the front cover. The interior appears clean based on the photographs.
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