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Au Pays Des Merveilles: Les Aventures Surrealistes Des Femmes Artistes Au Mexique Et Aux Etats-Unis

By (author) Ilene Susan Fort, By (author) Teresa Arcq, By (author) Terri Geis





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The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Conversely, the female artists of the movement delved primarily into their own subconscious and dreams. This volume features the work of 48 Mexican and U.S.-based women artists whose contributions to the surrealist movement span more than four decades and whose work was both influential and radical in its own right. Thematically arranged, it includes more than 250 full-colour images along with several essays exploring the effects of geography and gender on the movement. This unique book illustrates surrealism as a gateway to self-discovery, especially in North America, where women artists were freed from oppressive European traditions and the vagaries of war. From 1931, the year of Lee Miller's first surreal photograph, to 1968, when Yayoi Kusama presented her landmark happening Alice in Wonderland in New York's Central Park, the artists and works depicted here are both significant and extraordinary in their explorations of personal and universal truths.

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Publisher | Prestel
Published date | 13 Jan 2012
Language | French
Format | Hardback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 300 x 250 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-3-7913-5165-0
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BISAC | art / history / contemporary (1945-)


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