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Surrealist women artists and mental illness / edited by Jenny Anger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anger, Jenny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954.
- Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011.
- Oppenheim, Meret, 1913-1985.
- Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954.
- Sekula, Sonja, 1918-1963.
- Zürn, Unica, 1916-1970.
- Surrealism.
- Women artists--Mental health.
- Women artists.
- Local Subjects:
- Kahlo, Frida, 1907-1954.
- Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011.
- Oppenheim, Meret, 1913-1985.
- Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954.
- Sekula, Sonja, 1918-1963.
- Zürn, Unica, 1916-1970.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Jenny Anger is Professor of Art History at Grinnell College, Iowa.
- Summary:
- Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive-or productive?.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Framing Mental Illness
- s/M: Nadja
- To the Edge of Madness: The Immaculate Conception
- Part II: Transitions
- "My stomach was the mirror of the earth": An Ecofeminist Reading of Leonora Carrington's Memoir of Illness, Down Below
- Artistry through Emotional Anguish: Ángeles Santos and Her Painting
- Part III: Gender Play
- Meret Oppenheim: From the Rule of Men to the Crisis of Women
- Frida Kahlo: Surrealism, Suffering, and the Female Experience
- Claude Cahun as Anachronism
- Part IV: Living with Psychosis
- Sonja Sekula: Surrealism and Schizophrenia
- Rethinking Narratives of Illness in Unica Zürn's Oeuvre and Reception
- Zoobiologie: Gender and Psychic Suffering in Unica Zürn's Human-Animal Drawings
- Epilogue: Problematic Mentalities: These Surrealist Women Artists
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-5261-8069-3
- 1-5261-8071-5
- 9781526180698
- OCLC:
- 1573656230
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