Dame Darcy's Turn of the Century VHS, 1999
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.
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stigmatic blood writing - the process whereby blood from the stigmata or bloody sweat is miraculously formed into writing, images, and symbols upon hankerchiefs, bandages etc.
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Léonor Fini - Illustration from Histoire d’O, 1963
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how i feel tonight
when clearly intended to be having pleasure ... she was in fact ... having none ... not the slightest ... in which case of course ... that notion of punishment ... for some sin or other ... or for the lot ... or no particular reason ... for its own sake ... thing she understood perfectly ... that notion of punishment ... which had first occurred to her ... brought up as she had been to believe ... with other waifs ... in a merciful ... (brief laugh) ... God ... […] very foolish really but so like her ... in a way ... that she might do well to ... groan ... on and off ... writhe she could not ... as if in actual ... agony ... but could not ... could not bring herself ... some flaw in her make-up ... incapable of deceit ... or the machine ... more likely the machine ... so disconnected ... never got the message ... or powerless to respond …
Samuel Beckett, 'Not I' (1971)
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edwardian-time-machine
FOUR LINEN & LACE WHITE SKIRTS, 1900-1910