The Doll

Title (Dublin Core): The Doll
Type (Dublin Core): Photograph
Medium (Dublin Core): gelatin silver prints
Description (Dublin Core): Bellmer's obsession with dolls-his endless fabrication, reconstitution, and photographic presentation of them-was an effort to construct objects that would articulate his tortured desires in material form. The bizarre, robotic temptress in this negative print has an eerie electric aura. To love her, one would have to have, as the Surrealist poet Pierre Reverdy wrote, a "short circuit in the heart-system."
has technique (VRA Ontology): negative prints
has dimension (CIDOC CRM Ontology): 29.5 x 19.4 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Creator (Dublin Core): Bellmer, Hans
Date (Dublin Core): 1934–35
Coverage (Dublin Core): Surrealist
Subject (Dublin Core): dolls (figurines)
Provenance (Dublin Core): Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
References (Dublin Core): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265188