Surrealist artist and writer unica zurn serves as the inspiration for this fragmentary and illusory video. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. A more appropriate title for this show could be ties that bindeither by destiny or, to be more vulgar, by rope. The poet was tangentially connected to the circle of friends and artists that orbited unica. Neil and joanna berman ahlberg, drawing papers 86 new york, ny. Ernst 225 request the physical item to view in our reading room. Unica zurn auction price results unica zurn 19161970. The stress of bringing the unconscious and past to the forefront in their art and relationship helped unica zurn and hans bellmer to fall into fragmentation and disintegration which ultimately led to death. Annie godfrey larmon is an assistant editor of artforum. Untitled, of zurns first projective test is significant as it predates almost the entirety of her body of work in drawingthat is, it was administered. The poet was tangentially connected to the circle of friends and artists that orbited unica zurn, a. The story is about a young german girl who commits suicide. So surrealist artist unica zurn weaves a material backdrop for her slender but gutting 1968 novella about.
From the mid1930s, zurn worked as an archivist, editor and artistic advisor at. Log in or create account to view price data lot 676. Rilke wrote that it is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. This page was last edited on 30 august 2019, at 19. Such ties are revealed in this edgy exhibition of more than 50 works dedicated to the 15 years of collaborative effort between hans bellmer and unica. Her mother was helene pauline heerdt, and her father was ralph zurn, a writer and editor and cavalry officer who was stationed in africa. Even better than her semiautobiographical tale of almostpreteenangst, dark spring, unica zurn s more overtly autiobiographical account of her years of battling what seems like a kind of. The poet was tangentially connected to the circle of friends and artists that orbited unica zurn, a largely forgotten german surrealist writer and. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.
This article is within the scope of wikiproject biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize wikipedias articles about people. In it author unica zurn traces the roots of her obsessions. The bulk of her relatively small artistic output was created during zurns relationship. Artforum international unica zurn may 2005 elizabeth schambelan pdf. Zurn s familiarity with surrealist conceptions of the. In 1970, unica zurn, the companion and lover of the surrealist artist hans bellmer, threw herself from the sixth floor window of their apartment in paris. As examined in accordance with dark spring, zurn believed men to be creators. Introduced in the environment of french surrealism by hans bellmer, she could not fail to convey, in his art, the anxiety and the suffering. Dark spring is the story of a young girls simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the mad love so romanticized by the predominantly male surrealists. Zurn industries, llc specification drainage operation 1801 pittsburgh avenue, erie, pa u. The feminist surrealism of unica zurns outsider art 3. Annie godfrey larmon on unica zurns trumpets of jericho artforum.
All interested editors are invited to join the project and. Dark spring is an autobiographical comingofage novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In doing so, it creates a surreal landscape and a language that is startlingly new, demanding that the reader be willing to risk being an outsidereven if for a little whileif she wants to participate in zurn. Zurn was the longtime companion of hans bellmer and collaborated with him on a wellknown series. Paris until she is locked up in an asylum zurn was seen as the authentic voice of madness. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of.
Unica zurn 6 july 1916 19 october 1970 was a german author and artist. It has a bit of masturbation, incest and the writers own. Zurn is remembered for her works of anagram poetry and automatic drawing and for her photographic collaborations with hans bellmer. See more ideas about automatic drawing, drawings and artist. With bellmers encouragement, zurn began to experiment with automatic. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the.
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