Surrealism and Women

Name: Surrealism and Women
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ISBN: 9780262530989

ISBN-10: 0262530988

ISBN-13: 9780262530989

Edition: 1991

Authors: Gwen Raaberg, Marry Ann Caws, Rudolf E. Kuenzli

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/13/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English