tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post523474185015870920..comments2023-12-06T11:18:27.198+01:00Comments on ThinkShop: Hans Bellmer's DollsP. M. Doolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-49121464811635599302011-03-02T09:37:38.463+01:002011-03-02T09:37:38.463+01:00True, that might seem so Chiibi, but most modern a...True, that might seem so Chiibi, but most modern artists have been accused of the same, beginning with Manet. Today it is hard to understand why people were so upset in the 19th century by Manet's "Olympia".P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-27984512584447014962011-03-01T23:37:32.651+01:002011-03-01T23:37:32.651+01:00Bellmer seems kind of like a.....perv. XDBellmer seems kind of like a.....perv. XDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-43499931502202813432011-02-17T14:35:51.838+01:002011-02-17T14:35:51.838+01:00Would love to see the catalogue sometime Carolyn.Would love to see the catalogue sometime Carolyn.P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-44646954743861596952011-02-17T14:35:06.118+01:002011-02-17T14:35:06.118+01:00Paul, I hadn't seen this post of yours until t...Paul, I hadn't seen this post of yours until today. I love Bellmer's work...creepy as it is...I saw his photos in a photography exhibit in Tokyo! I'm surprised you missed it...I think it was at the Photo Museum there....I have the catalog here somewhere!!!<br />CarolynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-29249265922999868872011-01-07T12:13:53.845+01:002011-01-07T12:13:53.845+01:00To be honest, I have no idea what his point was, o...To be honest, I have no idea what his point was, or if if he even had one. The exhibition connected his post-war work with the ideas of Bataille. I described his work as "disturbing" but my wife called it "creepy". In an article from 1991 David Nerlich described his purpose as follows: "The fetishising of body parts and fragmentation of the sexual form ignored the constraints of physical actuality. Disjointedness promoted concepts of<br />physical impossibility. As a subject, the dolls servedto subvert the technology of photography, traditionallyregarded as a signpost to reality.<br /> <br />Bellmer's sense of taboo lay not in what<br />convention condemned but what was hidden in the<br />darkness of the psyche (where it is far from safe).<br />Bellmer's psychological confrontation and violence<br />may constitute a spiritual jolt that liberates from<br />habit and known codings. He dragged terrible desires<br />out of the darkness and into cognition so that we could assimilate the full reality of our passions and the content of evil in them. How else were we to<br />transcend them (in whatever way we ought) if not by<br />first knowing them?' There is an excellent article from art historian Sue Taylor of the University of Chicago on Bellmer's art at : www.artic.edu/reynoldsP. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740147662943742025.post-58227713772346681472011-01-07T03:59:08.998+01:002011-01-07T03:59:08.998+01:00The Nazis _did_ promote a reactionary view of art ...The Nazis _did_ promote a reactionary view of art that idolised the perfect Aryan body, and went to a great deal of trouble to eliminate "degenerate" art that didn't fit within their world view. So I can well understand why Hans Bellmer would have wanted to present an alternative view, during the 1930s and 40s.<br /><br />But I wonder what point he was making, after Nazism had been defeated for all times.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com