“Iris and Janet”
Author: Etheldreda Laing (British, 1872–1960)
Date: ca. 1914
Medium: Autochrome
A portrait of Laing’s daughters, Janet (born 1898) and Iris (born 1903), taken in the garden at Bury Knowle, Headington, Oxford. — source
Archives Dada: Walter Benjamin, L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique, 1936
Les dadaïstes attachaient beaucoup moins de prix à l’utilité mercantile de leur œuvres qu’au fait qu’elles étaient irrécupérables pour qui voulait devant elle s’abîmer dans la contemplation. Un de leurs moyens les plus usuels pour atteindre à ce but fut l’avilissement systématique de la matière…
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) -Yellow Irises with Pink Cloud, 1917
via fourteenth
Walter Sauer (1889 - 1927)
Ecstasy (Extase), ca. 1920
I love you: body shared, undivided. Neither you nor I severed. There is no need for blood shed between us. No need for a wound to remind us that blood exists. It flows within us, from us. Blood is familiar, close.
—Luce Irigaray, When Our Lips Speak Together (via frenchtwist)
Author: Arnold Genthe (German, 1869-1942)
Medium: Autochrome
Hannah Höch, Abduction (from the Ethnographic Museum series), 1925
Photomontage with collage elements, 8 3/8 x 8 11/16 inches
(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
Hannah Höch (Gotha 1889 – 1978 Berlin)
Collage, 1926 (collage and watercolour on laid paper)
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
(via archives-dada)
Desperate Attempt to Save Andy Warhol from Oblivion by Marcel Mariën, 1989
Printed papers and ink on card
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