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Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants-perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or ...
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Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants-perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or simply unknown. This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Letting surrealist women speak for themselves, Penelope Rosemont 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 movement's origins. She then organizes the book into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions that describe trends in the movement during each period. Rosemont also prefaces each surrealist's work with a brief biographical statement.
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Library Journal
Though surrealism has often been viewed as a male-dominated movement, women (many more than the few well-known artists such as Lenora Carrington and Frida Kahlo) have been integral to its development. In this first anthology of writings by women Surrealists, drawn from an impressively global group, Rosemont (Beware of the Ice and Other Poems, Black Swan, 1992) dives deeper than the extant writing on the movement to unearth the women involved since its inception. These varied writings--automatic texts, prose pieces, critical tracts, Surrealist inquiries (e.g., "Would You Open the Door?"), and results of Surrealist games (e.g., "Time-Traveler's Potlatch")--offer a history of women's formative participation in surrealism's past and create a context for its future. Rosemont's insightful introduction, short essays prefacing each major period of the movement, and brief bibliographies illuminate a vibrant revolution in process. An important research tool as well as a fascinating read, this major contribution to art history and literary scholarship is highly recommended for academic and public libraries.--Rebecca Miller, "Library Journal"
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Organized by era and including a brief introduction to the aims and principles of surrealism, presents selections of nearly 100 women's work. Entries range from journal excerpts to complete poems or short stories. A short biography of each woman precedes her work, placing her in a historical and artistic context. Primarily focuses on written works, but includes reproductions of visual arts as well. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780292787698
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication date: 7/15/2011
  • Series: Surrealist Revolution
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 5 MB

Table of 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
Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréaliste Renée Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field...

Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...
The Exquisite Corpses

Denise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...
Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...

Nancy Canard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution

Nadja The Blue Wind

Fanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along Purity! Purity! Purity!

Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an Inquiry My Passage in Surrealism

Valentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry

Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games

2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939
Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties Claude Cabun Captive Balloon The Invisible Adventure Poetry Keeps Its Secret Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation From life I still expect that overwhelming experience Beware Domestic Objects!

Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man?
The Scottsboro Case A Trip to Harlem

Simone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode Half-Season

Greta Knutson Foreign Land

Lise Debarme The Empty Cage The Little Girl of the Black Forest

Denise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers

Maruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My Work

Meret Oppenbeim Where Is the Wagon Going?
If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...
Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...

Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World

Gisèle Prassinos Arrogant Hair The Ghost of Chateaubriand

Toyen A Community of Ethical Views

Alice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare Ground Despair Hourglass Lying Down

Valentine Penrose There Is the Fire The Datura the Serpent To a Woman to a Path

Sheila Legge I Have Done My Best For You

Eileen Agar Am I a Surrealist?

Mary Low Women and the Spanish Revolution

Marcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains...
When He Went Away...
The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...
Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...

Leonora Carrington The Sand Camel

Grace Pailthorpe What We Put in Prison The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism Surrealist Art On the Importance of Fantasy Life

Hélène Vanel Poetry and Dance

Ithell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?

Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow

3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945
Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings Suzanne Césaire André Breton, Poet Discontent of a Civilization
1943: Surrealism and Us The Domain of the Marvelous

Mary Low Perchance to Dream Women and Love through Private Property

Frida Kahlo I Paint My Own Reality From Her Journal

Lucie Thésée Beautiful as...
The Buckets in My Head...
Where Will the Earth Fall?

Leonora Carrington Down Below

Régine Raufast Photography and Image

Laurence Iché
Scissors Strokes by the Clock...
I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...
Unpublished Correspondence The Philosophers' Stone

Gertrude Pape The Lake Eardrops from Babylon

Susy Hare Complaint for a Sorcerer

Sonia Sekula Womb

Meret Oppenbeim Round the World with the Rumpus God....

Ithell Colquhoun
"Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"
Water-Stone of the Wise

Emmy Bridgwater On the Line Back to the First Bar The Journey The Birds

Edith Rimmington The Growth at the Break The Sea-Gull

Alice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars...
Little Epidermis Sublimated Mercury The Appellants Ferns in a Hollow of Absence...
The Sleeping Woman

Eva Sulzer Butterfly Dreams Amerindian Art

Jacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen The Earth

Ida Kar I Chose Photography

Ikbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]

4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959
Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s Thérèse Renaud I Lay My Head

Françoise Sullivan Dance and Automatism

Iréne Hamoir Pearl Aria The Procession

Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?

Lise Debarme I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein

Maria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon Art, Liberation, and Peace

Helen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a Moment

Vera Hérold The Big L

Gisèle Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls

Ithell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism

Dorothea Tanning Legend

Nora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face
"Blacker Than Black. . ."
About Cats and Magnolias Poetry, Freedom of Being On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Valentine Penrose I Dream Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter

Jacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951

Alice Rahon Painter and Magician

Jacqueline Senard Reason and Safety Factors Cat=Clover Polar

Elisa Breton One in the Other

Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?

Joyce Mansour Into the Red Velvet Lovely Monster Practical Advice for Waiting To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Meret Oppenbeim Automatism at a Crossroads I Have to Write Down the Black Words

Judit Reigl Points of Departure for a New Revolt

Isabel Meyrelles Night Words

Anneliese Hager Of the Poison of Dreams The Blue Spell Automatic Dream

Drahomira Vandas Light Throws Shadows An Egg Hatches Out a Flame Rain Man

Olga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)

Blanca Varela Dance Card

Marianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms...
Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Leonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996

Kay Sage Painter and Writer An Observation The Window Chinoiserie Fragrance

Mimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Sonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face

Remedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams

5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s Nora Mitrani In Defense of Surrealism

Nelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner At the Women Warriors' Table Enough or Still More All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview

Nicole Espagnol Female Socket Heartstopping The Conclusion Is Not Drawn The Wind Turns

Annie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything!

Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?
Baking Chocolate and Dialectics What Do I Know...
Therapy

Monique Charbonel It's a Wonder

Unica Zürn Lying in Ambush

Elisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany Today Automatic Text for Anne Ethuin

Penelope Rosemont Passage Candle Rising Asleep

Joyce Mansour A Mango Night in the Shape of a Bison Ten to One to No Wild Glee from Elsewhere Absolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966

Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist?

Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an Inquiry While We Spend Our Lives Ironing...
And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...
The Naked Truth Vampiro Nox Surrealism: Rising Sign

Anne Ethuin Legend

Isabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk...
Tyger, Tyger

Luiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy
"Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)
Fable The Force of Gravity Sphericity: Ferocity

Alejandra Pizarnik Caroline von Günderode In a Copy of Les Chants de Maldoror

Leila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic Art My Love, I Speak to You of a Love

Rikki Ducornet My Special Madness Necromancy Dark Star, Black Star Machete Clean

Nancy Joyce Peters To the Death of Mirrors General Strike Nelly Kaplan's Néa: Woman and Eroticism in Film

Alice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist Dance

Jayne Cortez Consultation Feathers In the Line of Duty Make Ifa Say It

Haifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?
A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi

Hilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' Potlatch

Hilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' Potlatch

Valentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds Made

Leonora Carrington What Is a Woman?
The Cabbage Is a Rose

Meret Oppenbeim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It

6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and Tomorrow Silvia Grénier Salomé
Signs

Carmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt
"Lady from Shanghai"
Moi-Même (Myself)

Eva Svankmajerová
Emancipation Cycle Tactile Lids Stunned by Freedom I Don't Know Exactly

Alena Nádvorn'ková
Emila Medková's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of Detail Determination of Time Art History (Sandro Botticelli)

Ivana Ciglinová
The Old Crow's Story

Mary Low The Companion Q.E.D.
Where the Wolf Sings Encounter

Hilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music Today Preface to I Am Rain Our Skin Is Paper Poem for Central America

Marie-Dominique Massoni Two Seconds How Old Is the Old Mole?

Haifa Zangana What Choice?

Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's Paintings Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama Sacred Trees

Penelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden Goose The Bad Days Will End Revolution by Chance

Rikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi Manifesto in Voices

Alice Farley Permutations of Desire Costumes: Vehicles of Transformation Gesture

Irene Plazewska Newton's Descent

Debra Taub A Dance in the Forest Exquisite Alchemy Secret Melodies

Gina Litherland Imagination and Wilderness

Ivanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of Revelation

Nicole E. Reiss Divagations A Delirious Voyage inside a Circle

Elaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and Love

Sarah Metcalf A Game of Slight Disturbances

Katerina Pinosová
The Piece of Bone

Lenka Valacbová
The Sterile Dish

Kajsa Bergh Desire

Petra Mandal First-Hand Knowledge

Nancy Joyce Peters Women and Surrealism

Bibliography Index

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