Beauty Papers by Harley Weir

A creative biannual on the culture of beauty. A place where the world’s leading artists, photographers, writers and cultural commentators play, provoke, create, confuse and inspire. Founded by Maxine Leonard and Valerie Wicks. Dedicated to ‘All The Dolls In The World’ its theme is the body, beauty, the artifice of artificial representation of women (and people) and the desire to be desired. The book includes a written piece provided for the book by the legendary Charlotte Cotton. Entitled “The Exquisite Corpse”, Charlotte weaves conversations she has had with various artists – Guinevere van Seenus, Amalia Soto, Justine Kurland among them – into one dramatized text with stage directions by Asher Hartman.