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Hans Bellmer
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The Doll (Atlas Anti-classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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160 |
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2013-03-31 |
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1900565145 |
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Atlas Press |
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0.66 pounds |
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0.51 x 6.69 x 7.48 inches |
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Product Description
German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous--notorious, even--for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. The first edition of The Doll comprised a series of Bellmer's photographs "illustrated" with prose poems by Paul Éluard; Bellmer's hand-colored photographs subsequently acquired an iconic status as perhaps the purest exemplification of the Surrealist ideal of "convulsive beauty." Later editions of the book were expanded to incorporate a body of theoretical, poetic and speculative texts that together comprise one of the most important expositions of Surrealist cultural theory. Bellmer weaves a remarkably disparate set of concepts and intuitions--from fields as diverse as mathematics, morphology, optics and psychology--into a theory of eroticism that provides a totally unexpected rationale for his uncompromising art. His ideas are, in the words of poet Joë Bousquet, a "scandal to reason." This English edition follows Bellmer's original, the texts having been translated for the first time--by Malcolm Green, who also provides an introduction--from the final German version.
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