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"title": "Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography",
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"description": "Maar is hardly alone among Surrealists in making works that suggest or depict sexual practices \"forbidden\"by society. Photography\u2019s realism makes her montage more shocking than if it were composed of the same images done as wood engravings or drawings. Although Maar may have used some found images, at least one element comes from a photograph she took. The boy under the table is one of the figures in Children Playing.",
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"citation": "Ziebinska-Lewandowska, Karolina. \"'The Imaginary is What Tends to Become Real' The Photomontage Period.\" In Dora Maar, 99-123. Eds., Damarice Amao, Amanda Maddox, and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.",
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