Surrealism and Women - Caws, Mary Ann; Kuenzli, Rudolf; Raaberg, Gwen

Tight, unmarked; small stains to inside edges - does not bleed to pages; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; appears unread; These 16 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 women primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear. Although 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 reveals 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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Soft cover
MIT Press
1991
Cambridge, MA