Tag Archives: Dorothea Tanning

jackboots and the aura of love: from dada to dachau

Its difficult to ascertain precisely why Salvador Dali seemed attracted to fascism, and drawn to something in the aesthetic, unless at something in less manifest sense, there was a convergence between fascism and eroticism. The eroticization of the fascist existed … Continue reading

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EFFIGIES OF HOPE & ILLUSIONS OF DESPAIR

”They are scared of the inner truth about themselves, more particularly, about acknowledging psychic conflict and trauma as well as the primary creativity evidenced by fantasy (especially dreams). I think the early modernists – Gauguin, Redon, Max Ernst, de Chirico, … Continue reading

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