Antecedents
Meret Oppenheim
The Couple (with Egg), 1967
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‘We live the opposite, dar(l)ing’ is adapted from Sappho fragment 24C, ‘We live the opposite, daring’
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“Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.”
–Meret Oppenheim
Berenice Abbott Portrait of Princess Eugene Murat (1928) SOURCE
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Basket, le Chien de Gertrude Stein (1926) SOURCE
Man Ray made “fantastic portraits of men,” but “his women were mostly just pretty objects.”
–Berenice Abbott
Claude Cahun Self Portrait (1928)
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Members of Natalie Barney’s Paris Salon (1929)
Some of these people were real members , others were ‘aspirational’ members
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Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith
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Anna Atkins Cystoseira Granulata.
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Lee Miller Solarized Portrait (1930).
(Thought to be Meret Oppenheim)
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“[Y]ou should discover, handle, tame, make irrational objects yourself.”
Claude Cahun, from essay: “Beware of Domestic Objects.” (1936)
Gertrude Stein “Tender Buttons” (1914).
Stein’s short prose poems on discrete objects (eye glasses, a seltzer bottle, an umbrella) that comprised ordinary daily living. SOURCE
The Crisis Magazine founded by W.E.B Du Bois
The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor) and has been in continuous print since 1910. . Langston Hughes published more than 25 poems in The Crisis between 1921 and 1926.
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