WARNING: Mental health.
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For a while, we debated whether we should even post this on Nerdcore since it’s nonfiction with a heavy subject matter. We decided this could be an important post to raise awareness, not only on mental health, but also on the genius of Unica Zürn.
Céline Wagner (the artist and writer of this book) took a lot of artistic liberty when she drew Zürn’s partner, Hans Bellmer, and made him look so much less grotesque than in real life.
The blurb:
A childhood devastated by rape, the absence of an idealized father, a morally strict mother, and a passion for art shaped Unica Zürn.
ZÛRN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. – b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald –1. Born to a middle class family, a young woman in Hitler’s Germany. –2. Worked at Universum Film AG as a creator and screenwriter of commercial. – 3. Artist who belong to the Surrealist movement; was Hans Bellmer’s partner. –4. Schizophrenic. –5. Crazy woman. –Antonym. Body, organism. One of the only prominent female figures of the Surrealist movement, Zürn was tormented by inner demons that she shared through her automatic drawings and anagram poems. She longed for and rejected intimacy at once, seeking her so-called Man of Jasmine, an idealized male figure, throughout her life while living as the partner of Hans Bellmer, noted artist and photographer. As her schizophrenia began to overtake her, she longed to make the woman she once was disappear into the nameless pronoun She. In the eyes of Unica Zürn, madness is the only way to be in the world.
Original title: La Trahison du réel: Unica Zürn, portrait d’une schizophrène (Betrayal of the Mind: The Surreal Life of Unica Zürn)
Writer, artist: Céline Wagner
Translator for Humanoids: Montana Kane
Publisher: La Boîte à Bulles (French/2019), Fabrice Giger/Humanoids (English/2024)
WARNING: Mental health.
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