Living Dolls - Yasumasa Morimura

MORIMURA, Yasumasa. 
Living Dolls. 
First edition. Small 4to. Gold wraps with obi. Colour plates throughout. Japanese texts. 168pp. Tokyo: Asahi Sonogram, 1994. 

Here appropriation artist Morimura dresses up as various stars, figures of paintings and restages classic film scenes, rather like Cindy Sherman, though of course Morimura is male. An essential study of identity and iconography, historical gender roles, and drag.