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La femme aux fleur, Albert Joseph Pénot, 1900

Wallestein v1 no 8 - Nov 1972

Wallestein v1 no 8 - Nov 1972

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Ladybird, Eileen Agar, 1936

‘[Surrealist] men were expected to be very free sexually, but when a woman […] adopted the same attitude […] the hypocritical upset was tremendous.’ 

"Ladybird (1936), a black and white photograph taken by [Josef] Bard, features Agar in an act of defining her own image, her body covered in a transparent material and subsequently annotated with lines, spots and stars."

Hunter S. Thompson 

  “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”