Strange Flowers

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Strange Flowers is a cabinet of human curiosities, a celebration of some of the most eccentric, extravagant and extraordinary personalities of the last 200-odd years.

Cover stars

Your cut-out-and-keep guide to Strange Flowers’ cover stars:

dandy

The Dandy’s Perambulations

Witch's Cradle

Deren and Duchamp’s Witch’s Cradle

pearls

Pearls

fancy dress

Fancy balls

kaspar

Kaspar Hauser

Kupffer

Elisàr von Kupffer

Asmahan

Asmahan in Gharam wa intiqam

Wittgenstein

Haus Wittgenstein

Casares

Maria Casarès in Orphée

Menschen

Das Leben der Menschen

Sebastian

Sebastian Droste in Algol

Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann

Étienne de Beaumont

The Pleasure Garden

collage

La Belle Otero

Portraits by Berenice Abbott

Munich

Musidora

Hannah Höch

Jacques Vaché

Lucia Joyce

Elizabeth Taylor, Luise Rainer and Quentin Crisp by Angus McBean

Sissi (specifically, Sissi’s horses)

Arthur Cravan

Vali Myers

Nicolas de Gunzburg

Salvador Dalí/Sheila Legge/Leigh Bowery

Janet Flanner

Raymond Roussel

Belle Époque

Brian Howard

Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

Jean Lorrain

Kaspar Hauser

Fearless Nadia

Nazimova

Lady Hester Stanhope

Kabuki

Nancy Cunard

Edith Sitwell

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