A doll within itself is a powerful expression of the uncanny according to Freud, as it looks similar to a human being but nonetheless failed at achieving exact likeness. Bellmer’s dolls had all ...

"Uncanny," at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, mines the anxious terrain of flesh, robots and off-kilter realism.

It’s rich psychological terrain that encompasses dolls ... photographs of twins (back to Freud: doppelgängers) — that the feeling returns. Perhaps the most uncanny space in the exhibition ...