The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art

by Robert James Belton

Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s. This book addresses the former, using a "thick description" of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism and misogyny. These circumstances were determined by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895176549
• ISBN13: 9781895176544
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 351 Pages