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This print portrays, in profile, a character at the center of Antonio Berni’s imaginative universe: Ramona Montiel, a fictional prostitute who ascends from apathetic, middle-class youth to a decadent existence as paramour to clerics and generals in…

The hybrid possibilities of man-as-animal and man-becoming-animal emerged out of historical Expressionism and Surrealism, with roots drawn partly from the horrors of the First World War. The echoes and permutations of these “monsters” appear in works…

Educated in Germany and in Paris, Bess worked as a magazine illustrator in Venezuela before settling in Brazil. Her etchings characteristically appropriate the animal body and its biological functions, imagining in them the existence of human…