Published by Treville in 1993, 104 pages, 38×26 cm
First edition, hardcover, dust jacket

Condition: Very good++ (corner bumb, inside super clean)

In the late 1990’s, Sorayama was approached by the Sony Corporation to design an organic robotic form. It became the famous AIBO dog, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and then Smithsonian Institute of Technology. Intrigued by the effects of light on various metallic surfaces, and always ready for challenges to his technique and imagination, he began to produce a series of female robotic figures in the late 1970¹s. The term Gynoids was created. These female cyborgs of Sorayama combine elements both human and mechanical. The soft, sensuous body parts are cleverly intertwined with inorganic, machine-like connections and protrusions to create entrancing images which embody complex and subtle tensions.

A superb book of Sorayama artworks