Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety
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The German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), best known for his lifesize pubescent dolls, devoted an artistic lifetime to creating sexualized images of the female body -distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios. In this book Sue Taylor draws on psychoanalytic theory to suggest why Bellmer was so driven by erotomania as well as a desire for revenge, suffering and the safety of the womb. Although he styled himself as the quintessential Oedipal son, an avant-garde artist in perpetual rebellion against a despised father, Taylor contends that his filial attitude was more complex than he could consciously allow. Tracing a repressed homoerotic attachment to his father, castration anxiety, and an unconscious sense of guilt, Taylor proposes that a feminine identification informs all the disquieting aspects of Bellmer's art.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262201305
ISBN13:9780262201308
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:MIT Press (MA)
Length:310 Pages
Weight:2.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.3" x 9.4"
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