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Hans Bellmer: The Doll
Hans Bellmer: The Doll
ATLAS PRESS

Slip, Pbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 160 pgs / 15 color / 26 bw. | 3/31/2013 | Not available
$29.95



Hans Bellmer: The DollHans Bellmer: The Doll

Published by Atlas Press.
Introduction and translation by Malcolm R. Green.

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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Atlas Press

BOOK FORMAT
Slip, Paperback, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 160 pgs / 15 color / 26 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 68   

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