Posts Tagged ‘ Surrealism ’
Dora Maar, “Assia” (1934) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
The Centre Pompidou’s Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Claude Cahun, “Self-portrait (kneeling, naked, with mask)” (c. 1928) (© Jersey Heritage)
Claude Cahun, “Self-portrait (with Nazi badge between her teeth)” (1945) (© Jersey Heritage)
A Gillian Wearing exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery puts her work in dialogue with her largely forgotten Surrealist inspiration.
Source: A Conceptual Artist Pays Homage to Surrealist Claude Cahun’s Performance of Identity
‘No.3’, My Linear Heart Series, © Stasja Voluti 2012, self-portrait, digital c-print
Surrealism in Text and Image: A Conversation » Meta-Talon » Talonbooks.
The Jargon Society
Cold Sun / ISOLA DI RIFIUTI
* The photograph pictured above is Clarence John Laughlin’s The Mirror of Nothingness gelatin silver print 1957 SFMoMA
~ a favorite book, df
