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Morton Bartlett: Secret Universe III

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When the freelance photographer and graphic designer Morton Bartlett died at the age of 83, his relatives found 15 chests among his possessions. Each chest contained a half-life-size doll and its accessories: 12 girls and three boys, a wardrobe of hand-sewn clothes, black-and-white photographs of each doll as well as countless studies and archival materials. Bartlett began designing these dolls in the mid-1930s, studying anatomy books and histories of costume, and learning to sew and mold with clay to make them as true to life as possible. Each doll entailed a huge amount of labor, taking up to a year to complete; Bartlett created costumes and wigs for each one and then staged them in lifelike scenarios and photographed them, documenting a family he had never had and creating a body of work that would remain unexhibited during his lifetime. The third installment in the Bahnhof Museum's series on outsider artists, this volume examines Bartlett's extraordinary lifelong obsession.

Language: English

Pages: 104

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Release: August 31, 2012

ISBN: 3863351622

ISBN 13: 9783863351625

Morton Bartlett: Secret Universe III

4/5 ( ratings)

When the freelance photographer and graphic designer Morton Bartlett died at the age of 83, his relatives found 15 chests among his possessions. Each chest contained a half-life-size doll and its accessories: 12 girls and three boys, a wardrobe of hand-sewn clothes, black-and-white photographs of each doll as well as countless studies and archival materials. Bartlett began designing these dolls in the mid-1930s, studying anatomy books and histories of costume, and learning to sew and mold with clay to make them as true to life as possible. Each doll entailed a huge amount of labor, taking up to a year to complete; Bartlett created costumes and wigs for each one and then staged them in lifelike scenarios and photographed them, documenting a family he had never had and creating a body of work that would remain unexhibited during his lifetime. The third installment in the Bahnhof Museum's series on outsider artists, this volume examines Bartlett's extraordinary lifelong obsession.

Language: English

Pages: 104

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Release: August 31, 2012

ISBN: 3863351622

ISBN 13: 9783863351625

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