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Article: Hans Bellmer at Ubu.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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In the midst of debates surrounding sexual politics and subjectivity, this exhibition of photographs, drawings, paintings and books by Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) seemed propitious indeed. The diverse work highlighted Bellmer's lack of allegiance to any medium and his converse devotion to a single subject: the female body, reified, dismembered and reconfigured according to masculine desire. From his early achievements in the 1930s in Germany (the doll sculptures inspired by the automaton in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann) to his graphic illustrations for French fiction in later decades, Bellmer continually assaulted the esthetic integrity of female anatomies. Throughout his ...
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