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The weird world of Alfred Kubin: Beyond The Other Side (1908)

Posted by Ross Wolfe

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“Category of illustrative seeing: fundamental for the flâneur. Like Kubin when he wrote Andere Seite, he composes his reverie as text to accompany the images.” Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project

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