Surrealist Women : An International Anthology / edited with introductions by Penelope Rosemont.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosemont, Penelope, editor.

Series:

Surrealist Revolution Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Women artists--Psychology.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [1998]

Summary:

This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

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 Lévy

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

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!

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, Nuscb 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 Rabon

Four Poems from On the Bare Ground

Despair

Hourglass Lying Down

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 Colquboun

What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?

Jeanne Megnen

The Noise Will Start Tomorrow

3. Neither Your War nor Your Leace: 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

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?

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 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

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: Regroupmcnt and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s

Thérèse Renaud

I Lay My Head

Françoise Sullivan

Dance and Automatism

Irène Hamoir

Pearl

Aria

The Procession

Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquboun, Irène Hamoir, and Edith Rimmingion Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?

Lise Deharme

I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein

Maria Martins

I Am the Tropical Nights High Noon

Art, Liberation, and Peace

Helen Phillips

The Image: Recognition of a Moment

Vera Hérold

The Big L

Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls

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

I Dream

Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter

Taking a Sight 1951

Painter and Magician

Jacqueline Senard

Reason and Safety Factors

Cat = Clover

Polar

Elisa Breton

One in the Other

Elisa Breton, Anne Seghers, 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

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

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

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

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 Gharhonel

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

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

Are You a Surrealist?

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

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 Maldoror343

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780292758490

0292758499

OCLC:

1393307344