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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816560503321

Titolo

Surrealist women : an international anthology / / edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 1998

ISBN

1-282-01280-0

9786612012808

0-567-17128-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Collana

The surrealist revolution series

Altri autori (Persone)

RosemontPenelope

Disciplina

700/.41163/082

Soggetti

Surrealism

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Women artists - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-504) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, 1924-1929; 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939; 3. Neither Your War nor Your Peace: THE SURREALIST INTERNATIONAL, 1940-1945; 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959; 5. The Making of ""May '68"" and Its Sequels; 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Surrealist Women displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Penelope Rosemont, affiliated with the Paris Surrealist Group in the 1960's 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 1920's to the present, with introductions describing trends in the movement...