Hans Bellmer (Book order)

Hans Bellmer Book order

March 13, 1902 – February 24, 1975

Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. His work delves into the darker aspects of the human psyche and the objectification of the female form through unsettling and provocative imagery. Bellmer's creations possess a disturbing power, leaving a lasting impression on the viewer.

The doll

160 pages
6 hours of reading

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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.