These photographs capture the frenetic assemblage of readymade stuff (including toy guns, baby
dolls, shoes, crockery, cans, bottles, chicken
wire, detritus, bits of ephemera, etc.), the filling of bags of paint and their attachment to the wooden supports, the white - washing of paint
over the entire surface, and the ultimate dunk into milky - white plaster.
The exhibition organizer enlisted the major fashion designers of the day, including Jeanne Lanvin, Lucien Lelong, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Pierre Balmain to create outfits for small
wire - frame
dolls just
over two feet tall.
Fall: My sister had quite a few
dolls for which we made extraordinary jewelry from beads and very fine copper
wire that we found in the street left
over by men splicing electric cables.