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Book SynopsisThis anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.
Trade Review"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
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 Cunard
- Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet
- The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution
- Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution
- Nadja
- 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
- 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
- Lise Deharme
- 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 Oppenheim
- 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
- 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
- Grace Pailthorpe
- What We Put in Prison
- The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism
- Surrealist Art
- On the Importance of Fantasy Life
- Hélène Vanel
- 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
- Régine Raufast
- 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
- Sonia Sekula
- Meret Oppenheim
- 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
- 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
- Françoise Sullivan
- Iréne Hamoir
- Pearl
- Aria
- The Procession
- Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington
- Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?
- Lise Deharme
- 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
- Gisèle Prassinos
- Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls
- Ithell Colquhoun
- The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism
- Dorothea Tanning
- 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
- Alice Rahon
- Jacqueline Senard
- Reason and Safety Factors
- Cat=Clover
- Polar
- Elisa Breton
- 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 Oppenheim
- Automatism at a Crossroads
- I Have to Write Down the Black Words
- Judit Reigl
- Points of Departure for a New Revolt
- Isabel Meyrelles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Unica Zürn
- 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
- 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
- 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 Oppenheim
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lenka Valacbová
- Kajsa Bergh
- Petra Mandal
- Nancy Joyce Peters
- Bibliography
- Index
