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Surrealism and Women

Surrealism and Women

Caws, Mary Ann
Kuenzli, Rudolf E.
Raaberg, Gwen

Paperback

Art History

ISBN10: 0262530988
ISBN13: 9780262530989
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 13 1991
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
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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