LOOKING GLASS

Top art piece:  https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/30/513

Bruce Conner. LOOKING GLASS. 1964. Mannequin arms, dried blowfish, painted wood, glass,

fringe, shoe, cardboard, cut and pasted printed papers, paint, nylon, fabric, jewelry, beads,
string, doll voice box, fur, artificial flowers, feathers, garter clip, tinsel, and metal on Masonite;
60 ½ × 48 × 14 1/2″ (153.67 × 121.92 × 36.83 cm). Collection SFMOMA, gift of the Modern Art

Council © Estate of Bruce Conner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ben Blackwell

Bottom painting is by Eve Woods for Alexandra Grant's book "The Artist's Prison," from a page about prisoner #18, a Feminist and the mirror image of the Misogynist. Grant describes her book as kafkaesque, having a characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world. Personally, I think that word should be earned. It should be given to your book or work by a literary critic who sees the value of your work and compares it to someone like Franz Kafka, a major figure in the 20th-century literature. For an author to describe her own book in that term is arrogant, but then again, there was so much narcissism and self-inflation in the description of her book and it did not live up to expectation.