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Picasso becoming-minotaur Photo by Edward Quinn (1959)    'If you marked on a map all of the routes I've made and connected the dots...

The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

Jacques Prévert: Je ne suis pas un con!     I.    One of the idiomatic expressions that I hate most is: It takes one to know one .    Used b...

Byung-Chul Han   IV.    Whilst philosophe du moment Byung-Chul Han gives reference to the four great Bs of 20th-century French philosophy -...

Ceci est une pipe     If there is one picture in which Surrealist art, nude photography, and porn all come together, it's a notorious im...

  Although we might trace the history of the photo booth back to the late 19th-century, I think it's fair to say that what most people...

A young female fan of French poetry in the  1950s paying hommage to her hero Nerval   In urban slang, apparently, walking the lobster mean...

François Marie Charles Fourier  (1772 - 1837)   Le bonheur consiste à avoir de nombreuses passions  et de nombreux moyens pour les satisfair...

Salvador Dalí: The Enigma of Hitler  (1939) Oil on canvas (95 x 141 cm) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia I. A lot ...

You can tell a lot about a man by his moustache ... I. One of the things I like about Salvador Dalí is that, like Bataille, he rea...

Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage  (1785)  Photo of the original manuscript: Benoit Tessier / Reuters ...

André Masson: Mannequin (1938) Photo by Raoul Ubac (gelatin silver print) The Cleveland Museum of Art   If you love Love, yo...