Degenerate art
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, "The Doll" ("Die Puppe"), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "[[Tableau Vivant|tableaux vivants]]" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared [[Degenerate art|"degenerate"]] by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the [[Surrealists]] around [[André Breton]].