Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

by Nelly Kaplan, Gisèle Prassinos, Lise Deharme, et al.

Book Overview

Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project--achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants--perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029277088X
• ISBN13: 9780292770881
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"