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Lee Miller’s Portrait of Space
and the evidence of the camera's eye
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How I Fell in Love with the Daughter of the Minotaur
An encounter with Leonora Carrington's painting
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Stone Woman
It happened gradually.  You were walking in the forest and your head felt heavy.
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The Scientist Surrenders to Mystery
What am I doing? you ask.  I should have thought that was easy to see: I am making birds.  How?  Put simply, I use darkness, music and light.
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The Goddess Venus Visits the Surrealists
Just for once, Venus gets a chance to speak up and consider what she is doing in this picture from a surrealist magazine of 1929.
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Inside Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait
This encounter takes place in an art gallery. I am standing in front of Leonora’s self-portrait when suddenly, by the power of surrealism, I find I am…
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Embrace by Dorothea Tanning
Brown versus Pink
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Giacometti’s Woman with Her Throat Cut
Face to face with surrealist violence
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Hey! Mister Breton!
Self-portrait: Automatic Writing by André Breton
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The Fur Cup
The Fur Cup
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