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Bellmer's dolls

Posted by Michael Shanks

San Francisco - lunch at Anjou, on Campton Place.

Life Squared is building an encounter with a past in SecondLife.com - a world of avatars.

Lynn and I were talking about the ambiguity, of course, of clones, models of oneself ... and my current obsession with dolls

Doug Bailey and I spent a lot of energy on this back when he was writing his book about prehistoric figurines - this theme goes way back when. [Link]

Today it was surrealist Han Bellmer ...

La-Poupee-Hans-Bellmer

And have a look at this site in deviantART.com - [Link]

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Pretty_children.jpg

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For the archaeologists out there - Barbies in ancient Crete - [Link]

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