Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership

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Although notorious for their idiosyncrasies, the surrealists revived artistic collaboration as an honorable and productive practice. Most of the famous surrealists were men, yet almost all were involved with women artists who were much more than sources of romantic inspiration. Precious little attention has been given to this most intricate of partnerships.

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Overview

Although notorious for their idiosyncrasies, the surrealists revived artistic collaboration as an honorable and productive practice. Most of the famous surrealists were men, yet almost all were involved with women artists who were much more than sources of romantic inspiration. Precious little attention has been given to this most intricate of partnerships.

Magnifying Mirrors is the first study of the complex partnerships that stimulated and provoked these men and women. Each couple collaborated in its own unique way according to the varying importance ascribed to aesthetic, social, and political preoccupations.

The twelve couples whom Renée riese Hubert describes are Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp; Valentine and Roland Penrose; Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst; Unica Zurn and Hans Bellmer; Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Lee Miller and Man Ray; Aliced Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen; Remedios Varo and Benjamin Peret; Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann; and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Often the woman in a partnership, far younger than her male companion, had just begun her career as an artist and had entered the relationship as a junior partner in need of support and guidance. Not surprisingly, her association usually resulted in, and often ended with, an intense assertion of independence. In her examination of these partnerships, Hubert focuses on comparing the art that the couples produced, apart or together.

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Marjorie Perloff
"Professor Hubert gives us a whole new understanding of Surrealism and of the way male and female artists of the movement worked together or side by side to produce astonishing works. Hubert has opened up a vast area that will surely be a subject of major discussion in the years to come."—Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment
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  • ISBN-13: 9780803223707
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1994
  • Pages: 425
  • Product dimensions: 7.34 (w) x 11.30 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Meet the Author

The author of well over a hundred articles, texts, and books of poetry, Renée Riese Hubert is a professor emerita of comparative literature and French at the University of California, Irvine.
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Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Collaboration and Partnership 1
2 Collaboration as Utopia: Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp 31
3 The Reluctant Partner: Meret Oppenheim 63
4 Lesbianism and Matriarchy: Valentine and Roland Penrose 87
5 Beyond Initiation: Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst 113
6 Self-Recognition and Anatomical Junctures: Unica Zurn and Hans Bellmer 141
7 The Silent Couple: Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy 173
8 The Model and the Artist: Lee Miller and Man Ray 199
9 Dynamic Transactions: Alice Rahon and Wolfgang Paalen 231
10 Subversion and Creativity: Remedios Varo and Benjamin Peret 255
11 The Revolutionary and the Phoenix: Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann 277
12 Clandestine Collaborations: Toyen, Styrsky, and Heisler 309
13 Portraiture and Revolution: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera 345
14 The Feminist Aftermath of Surrealism 367
Notes 377
Works Cited 387
Index 399
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