Behind closed doors
Subtitle: the art of Hans Bellmer
By: Therese Lichtenstein.
Contributors: International Center of Photography.
Series: The discovery series -- 9.; California studies in the history of art -- 9.
Publisher: University of California Press; International Center of Photography
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Bellmer, Hans, -- 1902-1975 -- Criticism and interpretation; Bellmer, Hans, -- 1902-1975 -- Critique et interprétation; National socialism and art; Gender identity in art; Nazisme et art; Identité sexuelle dans l'art
Description: "The life-size, adolescent-girl dolls created by the German artist Hans Bellmer in the 1930s are the subject of Therese Lichtenstein's highly original work. Disturbing and controversial, Bellmer's dolls - with their uncanny, fragmented bodies and eroticized poses - were just as shocking during Bellmer's time as they are today.

Until now there has been little available in English about Bellmer's dolls, and Lichtenstein's book will be welcomed for its fresh interpretations of the artist's work and his place in European modernism. Eighty striking photographs accompany the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "This book complements the exhibition ..... for the International Center of Photography, New York, March 29-June 10, 2001"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-243) and index.