| Uncanny Sex Dollz |
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| Written by Domina Doll | |
| Monday, 14 July 2008 07:12 | |
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I came across this photo by Alex Sandwell Kliszynski on Violet Blue’s blog TinyNibbles. It reminded me of this image by Hans Bellmer. The German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is best known for creating life-sized pubescent female dolls or assemblages that he photographed during the mid-1930s. In fact, he was rather obsessed with his dolls and “devoted his life to creating sexualized images of the female body–distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios.” Although he began his doll project to protest Nazi Fascism and the “cult of the perfect body” or Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch, by creating mutilated bodies in degenerate, sexualized poses, his doll project is “said to have been catalyzed by a series of events in his personal life, including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 - and perhaps other unattainable beauties; and attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton); and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events he began to actually construct his first doll.”–Hans Bellmer, Wikipedia. Continued at Pop My Cherry Add your comment |