Surrealism and Women Contributor(s): Caws, Mary Ann (Editor), Kuenzli, Rudolf E. (Editor), Raaberg, Gwen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262530988 ISBN-13: 9780262530989 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1991 Annotation: These sixteen essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General |
Dewey: 700 |
LCCN: 90015477 |
Series: Mit Press |
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (0.90 lbs) 246 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and the unconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the male surrealists' projection of the female figure arose in the writings and paintings of marginalized woman artists and writers associated with Surrealism. The essays in this collection explore the complexity of these women's works, which simultaneously employ and subvert the dominant discourse of male surrealists. Essays |
Contributor Bio(s): Kuenzli, Rudolf E.: - Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa.Raaberg, Gwen: - Gwen Raaberg is Director of the Center for Women's Resources and Research at Western Michigan University.Caws, Mary Ann: - Mary Ann Caws, an art historian, literary critic, and translator, is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde. |