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Dada’s Holy Grail
Marcel Duchamp’s zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.
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Hilarious and Heartbreaking Objects Left in the Wake of Failed Relationships
Just in time for Valentine's Day. We're not bitter, we promise.
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Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny
Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels" employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way.
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Gaudy Gore and Artful Architecture in a Gaudí Graphic Novel
The book follows a fictional murderer through the iconic architectural creations of Antoni Gaudí.
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The Reluctant Surrealist
Guy R. Beining's poems appear disjunctive but are in fact carefully constructed in ways that call to mind André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Delvaux.
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A Russian Poet Recounts Literary Life in 1966
Soviet-era poet Igor Kholin describes social realities of life among the writers living in cultural exile outside Moscow.
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Performing European Traditions in the US and Reviving American Myths in Europe
In her book EUSA, photographer Naomi Harris documents Bavarian and Danish festivals in the US, Wild West theme parks in Europe, and other reciprocal cross-Atlantic cultural rituals.
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The Enterprising Illusionists of 19th-Century Spirit Photography
What does the continuing popularity of books about 1850s spiritualism and ghost photography say about us today?
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The Entirely Fake Villages Erected Around the World
The Potemkin Village is a phenomena that appears in countries all around the world.
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Beguiling Photographs of Pancakes Cast As Moons
Can a book of pancake photographs lead you to question the power of images in general? Well, this one is pretty convincing.
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A Visual Typology of Japanese Logos
Japanese design often stands apart from design in other countries because it seems to follow its own path.
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Photographs of the Vanishing Southern Pinelands, an Ecosystem that Thrives Through Fire
In 2010, photographer Chuck Hemard began documenting what remains of the longleaf pinelands in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States.