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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…

Like many artists of Mexico’s Oaxacan School, Santiago Avendaño has explored the metaphorical and aesthetic possibilities of the animal form. In Untitled, a plethora of dogs, birds, rabbits, goats, and other, more visually ambiguous species are…

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…