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Intersections
Women artists/surrealism/modernism
Series edited by Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon, Patricia Allmer
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Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on women artists working in and with surrealism in the context of modernism. In doing so it redefines critical understanding of the complex relations between all three terms. The essays address work produced in a wide variety of international contexts and across several generations of surrealist production by women closely connected to the surrealist movement or more marginally influenced by it. Intersections explores work in a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to film and fashion, by artists including Susan Hiller, Maya Deren, Birgit Jurgenssen, Aube Elléouët, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Elsa Schiaparelli, Joyce Mansour, Leonor Fini, Mimi Parent, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and Eileen Agar.
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Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism is the first anthology to focus critical attention on works by women artists working in and with surrealism in the wider context of modernism. The theorisation and discussion of these artists within these contexts opens up and challenges traditional debates on the relations between surrealism and modernism. It demonstrates the significant roles taken by women artists within the history of modern and contemporary art, and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons. Responding to the recent popularity of surrealism in major exhibitions, essays in the collection employ art-theoretical models and frameworks, and new art-historical and archive research, to analyse and offer insights into rarely-discussed works by artists from diverse international backgrounds whose careers span several generations of surrealist production across a wide variety of media, from painting and sculpture to film and fashion. Artists discussed include Susan Hiller, Maya Deren, Birgit Jürgenssen, Aube Elléouët, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Elsa Schiaparelli, Joyce Mansour, Leonor Fini, Mimi Parent, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, and Eileen Agar. Featuring important new essays by leading scholars in the field and new and emerging critics, and including full-colour reproductions of rarely seen images, Intersections offers a lively and informative survey of its topic. The anthology will be required reading for art historians and undergraduate and post-graduate students interested in the histories of surrealism and modernism, and the complex and influential roles played in both by women artists.
Author Biography
Patricia Allmer is Senior Lecturer in Art History and a Chancellor's Fellow of Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date September 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719096488
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 75 GBP
- Pages328
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration72 colour illustrations
- Biblio NotesIntroduction Part I: Automatic practices 1. Four 'outsiders', four women: surrealism and the psychic elsewhere - Colin Rhodes 2. Photographic automatism: surrealism and feminist (post?)modernism in Susan Hiller's Sisters of Menon - Katharine Conley 3. The surrealist script(s): Bourgeois, Chadwick, Hiller - Guy Reynolds Part II: Poetic practices 4. Savage balm: Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme - Jonathan P. Eburne 5. Emma's navel: Dorothea Tanning's narrative sculpture - Catriona McAra 6. Trespassing boundaries: Liminality, hybridity and the quest for identity in Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door - Victoria Ferentinou 7. Screams: Women in post-war surrealist journals - Hazel Donkin Part III: Magical practices 8. Desert islands: magic and modernity in the work of Ithell Colquhoun - Neil Matheson 9. 'The Old Horizon Withdraws': surrealist connections in Martinique and Haiti - Suzanne Césaire and André Breton, Maya Deren and André Pierre - Terri Geis Part IV: Combinatory practices 10. Helen Lundeberg, an oxymoron - Ilene Susan Fort 11. Lee Miller's signscapes - Patricia Allmer 12. Aube Elléouët's collages: Ricochets - Elza Adamowicz 13. Birgit Jürgenssen's poetic surrealist feminism - Gabriele SchorPart V: Practices of fashion 14. Feathers, flowers, and flux: Artifice in the costumes of Leonor Fini - Rachael Grew 15. Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli - Emma West Index
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