L'Ultrameuble
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L’Ultrameuble is a 1938 sculpture by Swiss-American surrealist Kurt Seligmann.
One part of the sculpture is a three legged stool where the legs are quite literally women’s legs (stockinged mannikins’ legs in high-heel shoes). Very Allen Jonesesque.
The work is reviewed and illustrated in the German book Sade / Surreal which examens the libidinal relation the surrealists had to Sade.
Dismembered body parts such as dolls, living plants and speaking body parts belong to the category of the grotesque and the uncanny. Freud wrote an essay on the latter entitled The Uncanny in 1919:
A picture by Roger Schall of it here. It would make an ideal illustration for my page on independent body parts in fiction.
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