Description
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the significant roles taken by women artists within the history of modern and contemporary art, and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons.
Trade Review‘The fluid navigation of diverse theoretical writing and close reading of lesser known works makes this volume both thought provoking and pleasurable.’
Dr. Christine Conley, Racar 42 (2017)
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Automatic practices
1. Four 'outsiders', four women: surrealism and the psychic elsewhere - Colin Rhodes
2. Photographic automatism: surrealism and feminist (post?)modernism in Susan Hiller's Sisters of Menon - Katharine Conley
3. The surrealist script(s): Bourgeois, Chadwick, Hiller - Guy Reynolds
Part II: Poetic practices
4. Savage balm: Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme - Jonathan P. Eburne
5. Emma's navel: Dorothea Tanning's narrative sculpture - Catriona McAra
6. Trespassing boundaries: Liminality, hybridity and the quest for identity in Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door - Victoria Ferentinou
7. Screams: Women in post-war surrealist journals - Hazel Donkin
Part III: Magical practices
8. Desert islands: magic and modernity in the work of Ithell Colquhoun - Neil Matheson
9. 'The Old Horizon Withdraws': surrealist connections in Martinique and Haiti - Suzanne Césaire and André Breton, Maya Deren and André Pierre - Terri Geis
Part IV: Combinatory practices
10. Helen Lundeberg, an oxymoron - Ilene Susan Fort
11. Lee Miller's signscapes - Patricia Allmer
12. Aube Elléouët's collages: Ricochets - Elza Adamowicz
13. Birgit Jürgenssen's poetic surrealist feminism - Gabriele SchorPart V: Practices of fashion
14. Feathers, flowers, and flux: Artifice in the costumes of Leonor Fini - Rachael Grew
15. Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli - Emma West
Index
