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Surrealism and women / edited by Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf E. Kuenzli, Gwen Raaberg.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 1991Description: 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262530988
  • 9780262530989
Subject(s):
Contents:
The problematics of women and surrealism / Gwen Raaberg -- Seeing the surrealist woman : we are a problem / Mary Ann Caws -- Surrealism and misogyny / Rudolf E. Kuenzli -- What do little girls dream of : the insurgent writing of Gisèle Prassinos / Inez Hedges -- Finding what you are not looking for / Gisèle Prassinos -- From Déjeuner en fourrure to Caroline : Meret Oppenheim's chronicle of surrealism / Renée Riese Hubert -- Speaking with forked tongues : "male" discourse in "female" surrealism? / Robert J. Belton -- Androgyny : interview with Meret Oppenheim / Robert J. Belton -- The body subversive : corporeal imagery in Carrington, Prassinos and Mansour / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- Identity crises : Joyce Mansour's narratives / Judith Preckshot -- Joyce Mansour and Egyptian mythology / Maryann De Julio -- In the interim : the constructivist surrealism of Kay Sage / Stephen Robeson Miller -- The flight from passion in Leonora Carrington's literary work / Peter G. Christensen -- Beauty and/is the beast : animal symbology in the work of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Leonor Fini / Georgiana M.M. Colvile -- Valentine, André, Paul et les autres, or, the surrealization of Valentine Hugo / Jean-Pierre Cauvin -- Refashioning the world to the image of female desire : the collages of Aube Elléouët / Gloria Feman Orenstein -- Eileen Agar / Judith Young Mallin.
Summary: 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.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.04063 CAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11903

Originally published as the journal Dada/Surrealism, no.18, University of Iowa, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

The problematics of women and surrealism / Gwen Raaberg -- Seeing the surrealist woman : we are a problem / Mary Ann Caws -- Surrealism and misogyny / Rudolf E. Kuenzli -- What do little girls dream of : the insurgent writing of Gisèle Prassinos / Inez Hedges -- Finding what you are not looking for / Gisèle Prassinos -- From Déjeuner en fourrure to Caroline : Meret Oppenheim's chronicle of surrealism / Renée Riese Hubert -- Speaking with forked tongues : "male" discourse in "female" surrealism? / Robert J. Belton -- Androgyny : interview with Meret Oppenheim / Robert J. Belton -- The body subversive : corporeal imagery in Carrington, Prassinos and Mansour / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- Identity crises : Joyce Mansour's narratives / Judith Preckshot -- Joyce Mansour and Egyptian mythology / Maryann De Julio -- In the interim : the constructivist surrealism of Kay Sage / Stephen Robeson Miller -- The flight from passion in Leonora Carrington's literary work / Peter G. Christensen -- Beauty and/is the beast : animal symbology in the work of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Leonor Fini / Georgiana M.M. Colvile -- Valentine, André, Paul et les autres, or, the surrealization of Valentine Hugo / Jean-Pierre Cauvin -- Refashioning the world to the image of female desire : the collages of Aube Elléouët / Gloria Feman Orenstein -- Eileen Agar / Judith Young Mallin.

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.