Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation / edited by Whitney Chadwick ; essays by Dawn Ades ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chadwick, Whitney.

Ades, Dawn.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--Psychology.

Women artists.

Self-perception in women.

Self-portraits.

Surrealism.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]

Summary:

This fresh look at women Surrealist artists of the 1930s and 1940s finds provocative parallels with many of today's leading women artists. Accompanies an exhibition organized by the MIT List Visual Arts Center. 83 illustrations, 18 in color.

Notes:

"Issued on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and premiering at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and traveling subsequently to the Miami Art Museum and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-183) and index.

ISBN:

0262531577

OCLC:

38090867