A famous book on eroticism, surrealism and photography. Paperback in a slipcase and shrinkwrapped.
The German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his life-size pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating sexualized images of the female body--distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic theory to sugges[...]
The life-size, adolescent-girl dolls created by German artist Hans Bellmer in the 1930s are the subject of Therese Lichtenstein's highly original book. Disturbing and controversial, Bellmer's dolls - with their uncanny, fragmented bodies and eroticized poses - were just as shocking during Bellmer's [...]
Die Faszination der Surrealisten für Puppen und menschenähnliche Maschinen zeigt sich besonders deutlich im Werk Hans Bellmers (1902?1975). Der Künstler baute in den Jahren nach 1933 in Abkehr zum Körperkult der Nationalsozialisten verstörende Puppen aus Wachs, Holz, Flachs, Gips und [...]
Vernissage, Västberlin 1953. Möte mellan Unica Zürn och Hans Bellmer. Hon: "Hon älskade honom från första stund." Han: "Men ni har lovat att följa med mig till Paris!" Sjutton år tillbringar de tillsammans i Frankrike, innan Zürn efter åtskilliga sjukhusvistelser tar sitt liv 1970.