Isolde Rare Books was not only women’s bodies

was not only women’s bodies but also (and mostly) male desire and those years’ dominant macho imagery

Daphne de Sonneville

therefore becoming the leading research and construction centre for the commercialisation of raw materials extracted from space

yet always vaguely familiar

A primordial force and an agent of transformation

Isolde Rare Books was not only women’s bodiesIsolde is an artists book composed of paintings, drawings, book excerpts, film stills and photographs. Named after the heroine of Richard Wagners opera Tristan and Isolde, the book traces Peytons long term interest in Wagner, the Romantic legends behind his operas, and his seminal idea of a total work of art. This publication takes the form of an anthology, in which the artists recent works are set in the context their myriad source materials and