{"product_id":"22144-goldin-nan-the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-signed-to-sophie-rivera","title":"Goldin, Nan. (b. 1953) The Ballad of Sexual Dependency - SIGNED TO SOPHIE RIVERA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eText by Goldin. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. Designed by Keith Davis. Oblong 4to. Original dark blue cloth-backed boards, blue paper to sides, titles gilt to spine and blind to upper board. With the photographic dust jacket. 120 colour photographs in the text. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst Edition, First Printing. Parr\/Badger II, page 39.  Signed and inscribed to photographer Sophie Rivera on verso of title: \"For Sophie \/ much luck w. your work \/ all the success in 87 and onward \/ Best to you, Nan Goldin.\" \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLight wear, overall fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNan Goldin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist’s own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere.  A 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986, it is titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Threepenny Opera \u003c\/em\u003eand indeed\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoldin’s Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists—including the artist herself—are captured in intimate moments of love and loss. They experience ecstasy and pain through sex and drug use; they revel at dance clubs and bond with their children at home; and they suffer from domestic violence and the ravages of AIDS. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the diary I let people read,” Goldin wrote. “The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSophie Rivera (1938 – 2021) was an American artist and photographer of Puerto Rican-American descent, best known for her 1978 photography series \u003cem\u003eNuyorican Portraits\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093803651231,"sku":"22144","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Goldin_NanBalladofSexualDependencysignedtoRIVERA22144k.png?v=1736450068","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/22144-goldin-nan-the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-signed-to-sophie-rivera","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}