Sueño No. 1: "Articulos eléctricos para el hogar"

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Sueño No. 1: "Articulos eléctricos para el hogar", Grete Stern
Title (Dublin Core)
Sueño No. 1: "Articulos eléctricos para el hogar"
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Medium (Dublin Core)
gelatin silver prints
Description (Dublin Core)
In 1948 the Argentine women’s magazine Idilio introduced a weekly column called “Psychoanalysis Will Help You,” which invited readers to submit their dreams for analysis. Each week, one dream was illustrated with a photomontage by Stern, a Bauhaus-trained photographer and graphic designer who fled Berlin for Buenos Aires when the Nazis came to power. Over three years, Stern created 140 photomontages for the magazine, translating the unconscious fears and desires of its predominantly female readership into clever, compelling images. Here, a masculine hand swoops in to “turn on” a lamp whose base is a tiny, elegantly dressed woman. Rarely has female objectification been so erotically and electrically charged.
has technique (VRA Ontology)
photomontage (image-making technique)
has dimension (CIDOC CRM Ontology)
Image: 18 1/4 × 15 11/16 in. (46.4 × 39.8 cm)
Mat: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Frame: 76.2 × 63.5 cm (30 × 25 in.)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Grete Stern
Date (Dublin Core)
1949
Coverage (Dublin Core)
Surrealist
Subject (Dublin Core)
table lamps
Provenance (Dublin Core)
Grete Stern; Horacio Coppola (the artist's ex-husband); by descent to Coppola family; [Jorge Mara, Buenos Aires]

Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2012
Rights (Dublin Core)
This image is in the public domain because the copyright of this photograph, registered in Argentina, has expired.