Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen, 1929
Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen, 1929
Anne Brigman - Travail, 1912 / reworked from earlier negative c1940.
… via the George Eastman House
Le genie de l’espece by Wolfgang Paalen, 1938
[T]he surrealist use of bones as material in connection with war and destruction becomes evident in Wolfgang Paalen’s 1938 bone pistol Le Genie de l’Espece, dating from the eve of the Second World War. In this work, chicken bones simulate the shape of the deadly weapon in the moulded trough of a velvet-lined pistol casket. Cause and effect seem to be coalesced in a matrix - the bones, arranged as a fantastic firearm, present death as the deliberate intention and inevitable result of the use of weaponry and are thus meant as an unmistakeable warning of conflict resolution by force. [ftp]
(Source: frenchtwist)
Peter Cushing as Arthur Grimsdyke, in Tales From The Crypt.
From THE EARLY IRVING KLAW by jim linderman
Francisco de Goya - The Monk
Reims Cathedral.
Auguste Lepère, from Prints and their makers, by Fitzroy Carrington, London, 1913.
(Source: archive.org)
![Le genie de l’espece by Wolfgang Paalen, 1938 [T]he surrealist use of bones as material in connection with war and destruction becomes evident in Wolfgang Paalen’s 1938 bone pistol Le Genie de l’Espece, dating from the eve of the Second World War. In this work, chicken bones simulate the shape of the deadly weapon in the moulded trough of a velvet-lined pistol casket. Cause and effect seem to be coalesced in a matrix - the bones, arranged as a fantastic firearm, present death as the deliberate intention and inevitable result of the use of weaponry and are thus meant as an unmistakeable warning of conflict resolution by force. [ftp]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8f14d036d8f0395e14576de027570f0d/tumblr_mmue0vFwsQ1qaxnilo1_500.jpg)
