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Announcing his intention to create a life-size doll, Hans
Bellmer declared: 'I shall construct an artificial girl whose
anatomy will make it possible to recreate physically the dizzy
heights of passion...' The final version of the doll consisted
of components that could be assembled and resassembled in
endless combinations. German-born Bellmer photographed the
doll in parts or whole and in various states of undress, in
such a way as to suggest different scenarios of seduction,
love, mutilation and monstrosity.
Through carefully positioning the doll and hand-colouring
some of the final prints, Bellmer explored an increasingly
fetishistic vision of desire. André Breton and Paul
Eluard described the doll as 'the first and only original
surrealist object with a universal, provocative power.'
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