Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick's seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement.

This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own "liberation of the spirit" in the context of ...