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| Palero Julián Castedo (Spain) Madrid 1933 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from THE AUTOMOBILE
A man had just married an automobile.
But I mean to say, said his father, that the automobile is not a person because it is something different.
For instance, compare it to your mother. Do you see how it is different from your mother? Somehow it seems wider, doesn't it? And besides, your mother wears her hair differently.
You ought to try to find something in the world that looks like mother.
I have mother, isn't that enough of a thing that looks like mother? Do I have to gather more mothers?
They are all old ladies who do not in the least excite any wish to procreate, said the son.
But you cannot procreate with an automobile, said father.
The son shows father an ignition key. See, here is a special penis which does with the automobile as the man with the woman; and the automobile gives birth to a place far from this place, dropping its puppy miles as it goes.
– by Russell Edson (1935-2014), published in The Childhood of an Equestrian (New York : Harper & Row, 1973)
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| Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Metaphysical Still-life 1918 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Still-life ca. 1925 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Theo van Doesburg (Netherlands) Construction in Space-Time II 1924 gouache on paper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Fernand Léger (France) Composition 1924 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean Jovenau (France) Still-life with Cat before 1921 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Wassily Kandinsky (Russia) Sketch for Composition V 1911 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Wassily Kandinsky (Russia) Composition VI 1913 canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Joaquín Sorolla (Spain) Court of the Dances Alcázar, Sevilla 1910 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joaquín Sorolla (Spain) Corner of the garden Alcázar, Sevilla 1910 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Savely Sorin (Russia) Portrait of Princess Nadezhda Orlova 1917 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Paul César Helleu (France) Portrait of a woman 1909 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Benjamin J. Miller (USA) Judith in the Tent of Holofernes 1928 woodcut Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Pablo Picasso (Spain / France) Scenes from the Ballet, La Boutique Fantastique for Léonide Massine 1919 drawing Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |