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Hans Bellmer is one of the most illustrious names in the field of erotic art and Surrealism. The Doll comprises a series of photographs that have acquired iconic status and which exemplify the Surrealists' conception of 'convulsive beauty'. They are accompanied by a body of theoretical, poetic and speculative texts written between the 1930s and early 1960s, which reveal Bellmer as one whose ideas are a scandal for reason. This English edition is based exactly upon Bellmer's original, the texts having been translated for the first time from the final German version.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
First came across Bellmer at the 1980's exhibition L'amour, focusing on Surrealist photo art.
I remember being struck by the inertness of the mannequin displays. It chimed a chord but nothing specific to relate to. The opposite of the voluptuous bodies on display on billboards, this was a voyage to the dark hidden places.
The(obvious) starting point is a connection to a dream state; the nightmare. A form of body suspension, the final resting place of distended shapes, murder in the woods, pornography of the soul, blasted by war or genetics. Bellmer moulds the bodies into pornographic shapes a technique reused by the Chapman brothers.
This collection collates more of the imagery. A small hardback of mannequin shapes, some hand coloured, Bellmer explores his extension to the textures of masked frozen death, peppered with porn and voyeurism all held captured in an eerie stilted quality. This is the only book of his prints I have bought since the L'amour fou exhibition and cannot compare it to the others.
The collection reeks of the odour of late autumnal silent shadows cast in the city doorways of central europe, where the light fights to illuminate any sense of emotional warmth. Meanwhile in the countryside where so much blood has dropped in fermenting the soul, the branches suspend torsos ripening in the cold winter sun. Whilst inside large central echoing apartments, masked shapes peer with fixed plastered gazes, ghosts of the receding past haunting current collective buried dreams.
These shapes evoke a stilted poetic response. They define one opposite polarity of the aesthetic beauty of the body. These represent a dismembered torso, the types of bodies hidden away in military wards, special schools and hospitals. Here in the book, on the page they lie uncovered, defined by their geography, time and space.
Apart from the Chapman brothers, Witkin is another arist who has taken this one step beyond into another realm fusing Jodorowsky, Bellmer and whatever else happened in his imagination. A big leap into the dark side.
I remember being struck by the inertness of the mannequin displays. It chimed a chord but nothing specific to relate to. The opposite of the voluptuous bodies on display on billboards, this was a voyage to the dark hidden places.
The(obvious) starting point is a connection to a dream state; the nightmare. A form of body suspension, the final resting place of distended shapes, murder in the woods, pornography of the soul, blasted by war or genetics. Bellmer moulds the bodies into pornographic shapes a technique reused by the Chapman brothers.
This collection collates more of the imagery. A small hardback of mannequin shapes, some hand coloured, Bellmer explores his extension to the textures of masked frozen death, peppered with porn and voyeurism all held captured in an eerie stilted quality. This is the only book of his prints I have bought since the L'amour fou exhibition and cannot compare it to the others.
The collection reeks of the odour of late autumnal silent shadows cast in the city doorways of central europe, where the light fights to illuminate any sense of emotional warmth. Meanwhile in the countryside where so much blood has dropped in fermenting the soul, the branches suspend torsos ripening in the cold winter sun. Whilst inside large central echoing apartments, masked shapes peer with fixed plastered gazes, ghosts of the receding past haunting current collective buried dreams.
These shapes evoke a stilted poetic response. They define one opposite polarity of the aesthetic beauty of the body. These represent a dismembered torso, the types of bodies hidden away in military wards, special schools and hospitals. Here in the book, on the page they lie uncovered, defined by their geography, time and space.
Apart from the Chapman brothers, Witkin is another arist who has taken this one step beyond into another realm fusing Jodorowsky, Bellmer and whatever else happened in his imagination. A big leap into the dark side.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a marvelous collection of images of Hans Belmer's famous surrealist work. I bought it on the understanding that it contained ALL the doll images as I was after one image in particular which I couldn't find anywhere else... and the book it didn't have it! My quest continues, but I'd still recommend this book as a masterclass in surrealist photography
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