Monday Motivation Owl
A few weeks ago, our department manager Alice posted about our new addition of the stylish and innovative early-1950s magazine Flair, published by the Cowles Media Company under the visionary editorial direction of Fleur Cowles (1908-2009). Checking to see if our general library held any issues of Flair, we learned that it did not, but it did hold the 1953 Flair Annual, which compiled samples of the magazine’s February 1950 to January l951 run. The annual is in such good condition, we are transferring the volume to Special Collections.
The magazine was lavishly produced, filled with foldouts, bound-in booklets, and numerous die-cut windows that provided image transformation from one page to the next. For your motivation this Monday, we present one of those die-cut transformations, Salvador Dali’s 1950 "Mimicry in Nature," which transforms a surrealistic owl-woman into an Owl Butterfly surrounded by women in butterfly-like fashions. Bizarre but motivating!
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