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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…

The nightmarish qualities of Grassmann's Untitled draw upon rich, visual sources from nineteenth-century Symbolism to Surrealism. Prints by artists such as Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) and Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), for example, fused Romantic concerns…