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Showing posts with label man ray. Show all posts
3 Sept 2024

Fuck Everyone and Be a Disgrace! In Memory of the Dada Baroness: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven  (1874 -1927)   "Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life .. ."   I.    The relat...
22 Mar 2024

André Masson and the Sex Pistols

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The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...
14 Jul 2023

A Bastille Day Post (2023)

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Man Ray: Portrait imaginaire de D.A.F. de Sade (1938)  Oil on canvas with painted wood panel (61.6 × 46.7 cm)    It's grey, wet and win...
12 Apr 2022

Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's an Angel! It's Barbette!

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Vander Clyde (c.1899-1973) aka Barbette Photo by Man Ray (1925) / Poster by Charles Gesmar (1926) Where there is loveliness of appearance, t...
12 May 2021

Pornosurrealism: Autumn 1929

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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...
6 Apr 2017

The Most Beautiful Streets of Paris (Notes on Surrealist Mannequin Fetish)

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André Masson: Mannequin (1938) Photo by Raoul Ubac (gelatin silver print) The Cleveland Museum of Art   If you love Love, yo...
12 Jan 2017

On the Art of the Kiss 3: Man Ray

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Man Ray: Le Baiser (1930) The above photograph by Man Ray, featuring his lover, model and muse - the magnificent Lee Miller - k...
14 Jan 2016

In Praise of Sleep

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Man Ray: Sleeping Woman  (1929)  Museum of Modern Art, New York What can one do, asks Nietzsche, when one succumbs to ennui and...
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6 Dec 2013

Urophilia: From Golden Showers to the Art of Pussing

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Man Ray: Tears (1930) The above photo, despite the title, has always suggested something other than a weeping subject.  In fac...
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