Heide Hatry: Skin (German Edition) (Signed)

[Association copy, inscribed by Heide Hatry on half title page.] Hardcover. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked pages. 143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. *Autographed by Heide Hatry.* Heide Hatry grew up on a pig farm in the south of Germany. She left home at the age of 15 to enroll in a sports school. She studied art at various German art schools and art history at the University of Heidelberg. She taught at a private art school for 15 years while simultaneously conducting an international business as an antiquarian bookseller. Hatry's serene scenes of flowers in her Not A Rose series are actually photographs of trompe l'oeil arrangements of the offal, sex organs, and other residues of deceased animals. Their simple compositions almost recall scientific illustrations, whose directed focus on the flowers' anatomy heightens their fragrant aroma and delicate beauty.