Surrealist Women
About this book
Surrealist Women displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Penelope Rosemont, affiliated with the Paris Surrealist Group in the 1960s and now a Chicago poet and painter, has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the origins of the movement.The texts are organised into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions describing trends in the movement for each period; and each surrealist's work is prefaced by a brief biographical statement. Authors include El Allailly, Bruna, Cunard, Carrington, Cesaire, Gauthier, Giovanna, van Hirtum, Kahlo, Levy, Mansour, Mitrani, Pailthorpe, Joyce Peters, Rahon, Svankmajerova, Taub, Zangana
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge
- Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology
- 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924โ1929
- 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930โ1939
- 3. Neither Your War nor Your Peace: THE SURREALIST INTERNATIONAL, 1940โ1945
- 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946โ1959
- 5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels
- 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century
- Bibliography
- Index
