Unica Zürn, the Hans Bellmer’s doll
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Materia2018.13.6Keywords:
Hans Bellmer, Unica Zürn, creative alienation, schizophrenia, «anatomy of the image», anagramAbstract
In Surrealism’s «woman-child» we find the idea of the woman-doll and the mannequin. Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) creates the «poupée», the detachable doll in 1934, and finds his doll victim of flesh and blood in Unica Zürn (1916 to 1970), a painter and writer who will turn his schizophrenia into a biographical account of her own creation. The couple’s relationship creates a parallel between Hans Bellmer’s «image anatomies» and Unica Zürn’s anagrams. Body and writing decompose and fragment to recompose themselves again. The unconscious dimension and psychic automatism reach a state of pure creation, beyond the social games of the Surrealists.
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