Hans Bellmer, Obliques magazine numéro spécial (1975)

Unica Zürn - Plan of the House of Illnesses (1958)

Alphonse Inoue copperplate print, High Tide No. 11

Dame Darcy's Turn of the Century VHS, 1999

Joyce Mansour

La Poupée (1936) by Hans Bellmer. Black morocco leather binding by Louis Christy frames reliquary display cases made by Georges Hugnet on the front and back cover, each containing metal and jade garters attached to black silk stockings extending from a white lace-trimmed bloomer.

Lotte Pritzel with one of her many dolls in 1923. Rejecting Oskar Kokoschka’s commission for a replication of his lost lover in the form of an articulated doll, the dollmaker later became friends with Hans Bellmer, whose own fascination with dolls had roots in projected psychosexual obsessions, pedophilia, castration anxiety, and objectification of the female form as beckoning its own ruin.

18th century faux beauty mark stickers

Echoes of Silence (1965)

19th century mother of pearl hand-carved with the crucifixion

Unknown / Anaïs Nin - House of Incest (1936) / Maya Deren - At Land (1944) / Anne Sexton - Water (1962) / Milena Gierke - Wasserspiel I (1997) / Marina Tsvetaeva - Nocturnal Places (1923)