HANS BELLMER PHOTOGRAPHE
Alan Sayag [introduction]
Alan Sayag [introduction]: HANS BELLMER PHOTOGRAPHE. Paris: E.P.I. Editions Filipacchi/Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983. First edition. Text in French. A near-fine hardcover book in a near-fine dustjacket. Gift inscription on the FEP. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 8.5 x 12 hardcover book with 152 pages and 172 illustrations, 44 in color. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Hans Bellmer": Centre Georges Pompidou [Dec 21-Feb 27, 1983]. Includes 12 pages of information on the included photographs. Images that as arresting and relevant today as they must have been seventy-five years ago.
From Sue Taylor's essay "Hans Bellmer in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body" available on the web site for The Art Institute of Chicago -- Ryerson and Burnham Libraries: "Bellmer's doll, the first sculptural construction of an erstwhile graphic designer, developed out of a series of three now legendary events in his personal life: the reappearance in his family of a beautiful teenage cousin, Ursula Naguschewski, who moved to Berlin from Kassel in 1932; his attendance at a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, in which the protagonist falls tragically in love with the lifelike automaton Olympia; and a shipment from his mother of a box of old toys which had belonged to him as a boy."
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