Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Lost count of what re-read this was. What to make of Bellmer given the times he lived in and given the complex, knotted, uncomfortable portrayals of the female body . . . I don't really know. It's a bit reductionist, I'd argue, to say either this man was a sexist prick and it's also a bit much to say there's not something to the criticisms whilst still being moved in bizarre ways with his art.