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Scope and Contents The title translates to "Cunt of Fairies." Topor painted faces onto color photographs of women with their legs spread apart to expose their genitalia. These were then rephotographed for the edition. Wilkipedia: Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 -- April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Topor published several books of drawings, including Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975). Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted in the English language collection Stories and Drawings (1967). His carefully detailed, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and macabre subject matter of the images. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimerique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski...

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The work consists of two sections: Photopoems 1979 and Acting As Behavior 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.