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Edvard Munch, themes of isolation:

Woman on sea coast, 1888

Evening melancholy , 1891

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Leonora Carrington in 1975 with her work Lepidoptera (1969) Photo: Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives /© NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images

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A ceramic bowl depicting a swarm of mice. From Peru, Nazca culture, 180 BCE-500 CE, now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Twitter

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Nobuo Sekine, Phase of Nothingness, 1969-1970

installation view, Japanese Pavilion at 35th Venice Biennale, Venice, 1970, photo: Yoriko Kushigemachi

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sketchbooks

(Some photos Copyright: Photo (c) Tate)

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sandro botticelli, dante and beatrice in stars

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“When a woman loses her resolve to speak up and stand firmly behind her position, she may be vulnerable to depression, anxiety, headaches, chronic anger, and bitterness. Sometimes these symptoms reflect an unconscious search for truth, forcing a more honest self-appraisal, including the degree to which she is voicing her authentic values and desires and living in accord with them. As writer Kat Duff puts it, “Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.” We need to listen carefully to the wisdom of our symptoms and to try to decode their meaning, because some of us have learned to settle, to fall silent, to deny that unfair circumstances exist or matter, and then to call our compromises “life.” But our bodies, our deeper unconscious selves, remain harder to fool.”

— Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Connection

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Sarah Hinckley

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“It is a combination of kitsch and craziness and trashiness. But craziness is very important, and it saves trashy stuff like Magnificent Obsession. This is the dialectic—there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains the element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.”

— Douglas Sirk

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Louise Bourgeois Untitled 1943

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Title: Interior with Ida in a White Chair Artist: Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864-1916) Date: 1900 Genre: interior Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 57 cm (22.4 in) high x 49 cm (19.3 in) wide Location: private collection

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Armenian Gospels.

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Unknown, Polar Bear

walrus ivory

l.5.5", University of California, San Diego

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