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Hans Bellmer – “The Doll”, c. 1934

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Hans Bellmer -

“I want to reveal what is usually kept hidden – it is no game – I tried to open peoples eyes to new realities: it is as true of the doll photographs as it is of Petit Traite de la Morale. The anagram is the key to my work. This allies me to the Surrealists and I am glad to be considered part of that movement, although I have less concern than some Surrealists with the subconscious, because my works are carefully thought out and controlled. If my work is found to scandalise, that is because for me the world is scandalous.”

— Hans Bellmer

GIFABILITY

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“The creation and collision of GIFs offers a potentially different implication for the looping horizon: the possibility of communication […] Now, perhaps trapped before a looping horizon, we promote an inverted relationship of understanding: presented with supposedly whole media artifacts, we deconstruct and disperse them, wreck them and from the rubble construct a new lexicon of associations and meanings.”

— Giampaolo Bianconi

(via britticisms)

“‘ARCHITECTURE IS FROZEN MUSIC.’ (This is, I think, the aesthetic key to the development of cartoons as an art form.)”

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“What you do with comics, essentially, is take pieces of experience and freeze them in time,” Ware says. “The moments are inert, lying there on the page in the same way that sheet music lies on the printed page. In music you breathe life into the composition by playing it. In comics you make the strip come alive by reading it, by experiencing it beat by beat as you would playing music…”

— Chris Ware