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“... co-editor of The Themerson Archive Catalogue, along with his wife (and Franciszka’s niece) Jasia Reichardt – puts it, they ‘celebrated the destruction of boundaries between things’. Franciszka was born in Warsaw in 1907. She came into the world, her parents’ friends liked to say, with a pencil in her hand. Her father, Jakub Weinles, was a ...”

“... real she could be alive tends also to look dead. Back in the 1970s, the art historian and curator Jasia Reichardt put together a brilliant anthology of automata, androids, cyborgs and other dream-machine women (and men) in her book Robots: Fact, Fiction and Prediction. New Eves and dream wives assembled from machine parts or other inert matter (the Bride ...”