morbid art sculpture & dolls. Original / books of it

[Unheard]

worth to be also mentioned the collaboration between the doll artist Koitsukihime and the photographer Hiroshi Nonami, which led to a postcards set named "Misericordia"

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I have these on book and postcards.
There seems to be endless amount of good books of this type. Most recent reading:

ASTRAL DOLL by Ryo Yoshida. Less life-life compared to Koitsukihime. Pale and sinister looking lifeless girls.

ALICE IN THE TWINS WORLD by Mari Shimizu. Perhaps even more eerie. Nice small A5 size hardcover with hole in front so you see the first page faces. Style of doll is perhaps something between Yoshida and Koitsuhikime, but with own characteristics, such as oversizer strong eyes. Seems like focus on eyes, which are wide open and that tend to always look straight forward. Often made to look wet, and also faded in color. Very light blue, like eyes of old persons corpse. And needless to remind, the Alice theme. Found this one for 4$ in 2nd hand bookstore focused on japanese pop culture singers, in pile of junior idol dvd's.

[Unheard]

I have these on book and postcards.
There seems to be endless amount of good books of this type. Most recent reading:

ASTRAL DOLL by Ryo Yoshida. Less life-life compared to Koitsukihime. Pale and sinister looking lifeless girls.

ALICE IN THE TWINS WORLD by Mari Shimizu. Perhaps even more eerie. Nice small A5 size hardcover with hole in front so you see the first page faces. Style of doll is perhaps something between Yoshida and Koitsuhikime, but with own characteristics, such as oversizer strong eyes. Seems like focus on eyes, which are wide open and that tend to always look straight forward. Often made to look wet, and also faded in color. Very light blue, like eyes of old persons corpse. And needless to remind, the Alice theme. Found this one for 4$ in 2nd hand bookstore focused on japanese pop culture singers, in pile of junior idol dvd's.

Mari Shimizu did some excellent work for the mentioned Too Negative (and Ultra Negative) mag

[RG]

That is by Jeff Koons, not Paul McCarthy.

[Scale]

Has to be done -

Yes. Bellmer is the Ur artist here. Fascinating stuff.

I always thought The Chapman Brothers owed a huge amount to him.

[A.R.GH]

Not 100% sure if it fits this topic, but Ron Mueck's hyperrealist sculptures comes to my mind. I came across his art some months ago, when I borrowed the book Art Now! Vol. 2(Taschen)... his work blew my mind



sculpture of his dead father ("Dead Dad")

[Voûte]

I've seen a Mueck exhibition few years ago. It was fascinating. The bodies/sculpture are very well done, nearly alive. The way he play with the proportions are a big part of the effect of surprise felt by the visitors.




The sculpture on the last picture is particularly disturbing if you have already experienced the close presence of a dying member of your family.

[Niko]

[Voûte]

There's an artist i appreciate a lot: Ludovic Levasseur and his wonderful flesh dolls.









http://e-l-i-s-e.blogspot.com/2008/12/poupees-viandes-de-ludovic-levasseur.html

[icepick method]

Just got Bellmer - The Doll in the mail, along with a signed copy of Etsuko Miura's The Doll Bride of Frankenstein and Yaso: Doll & Body. Great stuff. I'm very interested in doing something like this but instead of using porcelain balljoints and springs for articulation  i want to cast fx silicone over machined stopmotion armatures. That's really my only problem with these doll artists, the static nature of their creations. Some of the photographs look straight out of a Quay brothers film. As wonderfully disturbing as they are, the slightly jerky unsettling nature of stopmotion would make them even more so.

[Mme Deficit]

No discussion of morbid dolls would be complete without the Alma Mahler doll, basically an old-school Real Doll. In 1918, artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with ex-lover Alma Mahler that he ordered a life-sized doll fashioned in her image. The results were less than satisfactory (as you can see above). After a few years, Kokoschka "gave a big champagne Party with chamber music, during which my maid Hulda exhibited the doll in all its beautiful clothes for the last time. When dawn broke - I was quite drunk, as was everyone else - I beheaded it out in the garden and broke a bottle of red wine over its head." (More information here: http://www.alma-mahler.at/engl/almas_life/puppet.html)





And there's also radiologist Carl Tanzler's pathetic attempt to preserve the corpse of a dead female patient whom he'd become infatuated with. He funded her mausoleum, which he visited constantly, and eventually just stole the corpse and attempted to patch all the rot together in doll form so he could sleep with it every night. He kept the body for seven years before being discovered. (More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler)

[tiny_tove]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4639080/Doll-designed-to-look-just-like-ill-premature-baby-causes-outrage.html

[tiny_tove]

Cabbage patch hospital

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/4658497/Cabbage-Patch-Kids-hospital.html

[Human Larvae]

Cabbage patch hospital

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/4658497/Cabbage-Patch-Kids-hospital.html

does anyone remember the garbage pail kids?




Think I even saw the movie when I was a kid. This should belong in the comic section, but since it was a parody of the cabage patch kids....

[tiny_tove]

My parents never wanted to buy these for me :( but they looked impressive.
do you know the title of the movie?