Mona Lisa’s Mustache, Signed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
[Signed] Robsjohn-Gibbings, T.H. Mona Lisa’s Mustache. First Edition. 1947. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows small tears and light fraying. Book is signed on the flyleaf, “T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings.”
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