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, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or simply unknown. This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Letting surrealist women speak for themselves, Penelope Rosemont has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the movement's origins. She then organizes the book into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions that describe trends in the movement during each period. Rosemont also prefaces each surrealist's work with a brief biographical statement.

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Author:   Penelope Rosemont
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9780292770881

ISBN 10:   029277088
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   01 September 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La Revolution surrealiste Renee Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field... Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime... The Exquisite Corpses Denise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song... Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin... Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution Nadja The Blue Wind Fanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along Purity! Purity! Purity! Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an Inquiry My Passage in Surrealism Valentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties Claude Cabun Captive Balloon The Invisible Adventure Poetry Keeps Its Secret Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation From life I still expect that overwhelming experience Beware Domestic Objects! Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man? The Scottsboro Case A Trip to Harlem Simone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode Half-Season Greta Knutson Foreign Land Lise Deharme The Empty Cage The Little Girl of the Black Forest Denise Bellon, Gala Dali, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers Maruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My Work Meret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going? If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing... Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers... Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World Gisele Prassinos Arrogant Hair The Ghost of Chateaubriand Toyen A Community of Ethical Views Alice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare Ground Despair Hourglass Lying Down Valentine Penrose There Is the Fire The Datura the Serpent To a Woman to a Path Sheila Legge I Have Done My Best For You Eileen Agar Am I a Surrealist? Mary Low Women and the Spanish Revolution Marcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains... When He Went Away... The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops... Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep... Leonora Carrington The Sand Camel Grace Pailthorpe What We Put in Prison The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism Surrealist Art On the Importance of Fantasy Life Helene Vanel Poetry and Dance Ithell Colquhoun What Do I Need to Paint a Picture? Jeanne Megnen The Noise Will Start Tomorrow 3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945 Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings Suzanne Cesaire Andre Breton, Poet Discontent of a Civilization 1943: Surrealism and Us The Domain of the Marvelous Mary Low Perchance to Dream Women and Love through Private Property Frida Kahlo I Paint My Own Reality From Her Journal Lucie Thesee Beautiful as... The Buckets in My Head... Where Will the Earth Fall? Leonora Carrington Down Below Regine Raufast Photography and Image Laurence Iche Scissors Strokes by the Clock... I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern... Unpublished Correspondence The Philosophers' Stone Gertrude Pape The Lake Eardrops from Babylon Susy Hare Complaint for a Sorcerer Sonia Sekula Womb Meret Oppenheim Round the World with the Rumpus God.... Ithell Colquhoun Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea Water-Stone of the Wise Emmy Bridgwater On the Line Back to the First Bar The Journey The Birds Edith Rimmington The Growth at the Break The Sea-Gull Alice Rahon Pointed Out Like the Stars... Little Epidermis Sublimated Mercury The Appellants Ferns in a Hollow of Absence... The Sleeping Woman Eva Sulzer Butterfly Dreams Amerindian Art Jacqueline Johnson The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen The Earth Ida Kar I Chose Photography Ikbal El Alailly Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany] 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959 Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s Therese Renaud I Lay My Head Francoise Sullivan Dance and Automatism Irene Hamoir Pearl Aria The Procession Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Irene Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most? Lise Deharme I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein Maria Martins I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon Art, Liberation, and Peace Helen Phillips The Image: Recognition of a Moment Vera Herold The Big L Gisele Prassinos Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls Ithell Colquhoun The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism Dorothea Tanning Legend Nora Mitrani Scandal with a Secret Face Blacker Than Black. . . About Cats and Magnolias Poetry, Freedom of Being On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Valentine Penrose I Dream Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter Jacqueline Johnson Taking a Sight 1951 Alice Rahon Painter and Magician Jacqueline Senard Reason and Safety Factors Cat=Clover Polar Elisa Breton One in the Other Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door? Joyce Mansour Into the Red Velvet Lovely Monster Practical Advice for Waiting To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Meret Oppenheim Automatism at a Crossroads I Have to Write Down the Black Words Judit Reigl Points of Departure for a New Revolt Isabel Meyrelles Night Words Anneliese Hager Of the Poison of Dreams The Blue Spell Automatic Dream Drahomira Vandas Light Throws Shadows An Egg Hatches Out a Flame Rain Man Olga Orozco Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf) Blanca Varela Dance Card Marianne van Hirtum In Those Rooms... Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Leonora Carrington Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996 Kay Sage Painter and Writer An Observation The Window Chinoiserie Fragrance Mimi Parent Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism Sonia Sekula Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face Remedios Varo A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams 5. The Making of May '68 and Its Sequels Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s Nora Mitrani In Defense of Surrealism Nelly Kaplan Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner At the Women Warriors' Table Enough or Still More All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview Nicole Espagnol Female Socket Heartstopping The Conclusion Is Not Drawn The Wind Turns Annie Le Brun Introduction to Drop Everything! Giovanna Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism? Baking Chocolate and Dialectics What Do I Know... Therapy Monique Charbonel It's a Wonder Unica Zurn Lying in Ambush Elisabeth Lenk Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany Today Automatic Text for Anne Ethuin Penelope Rosemont Passage Candle Rising Asleep Joyce Mansour A Mango Night in the Shape of a Bison Ten to One to No Wild Glee from Elsewhere Absolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966 Mimi Parent Are You a Surrealist? Marianne van Hirtum The Future of Surrealism: Response to an Inquiry While We Spend Our Lives Ironing... And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper... The Naked Truth Vampiro Nox Surrealism: Rising Sign Anne Ethuin Legend Isabel Meyrelles I Will Tell You During the Walk... Tyger, Tyger Luiza Neto Jorge Another Genealogy Monument to Birds (Max Ernst) Fable The Force of Gravity Sphericity: Ferocity Alejandra Pizarnik Caroline von Gunderode In a Copy of Les Chants de Maldoror Leila Ferraz Secrets of Surrealist Magic Art My Love, I Speak to You of a Love Rikki Ducornet My Special Madness Necromancy Dark Star, Black Star Machete Clean Nancy Joyce Peters To the Death of Mirrors General Strike Nelly Kaplan's Nea: Woman and Eroticism in Film Alice Farley Notes toward a Surrealist Dance Jayne Cortez Consultation Feathers In the Line of Duty Make Ifa Say It Haifa Zangana Can We Disturb These Living Coffins? A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi Hilary Booth Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' Potlatch Hilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' Potlatch Valentine Penrose From These Husks Are Worlds Made Leonora Carrington What Is a Woman? The Cabbage Is a Rose Meret Oppenheim Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and Tomorrow Silvia Grenier Salome Signs Carmen Bruna Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt Lady from Shanghai Moi-Meme (Myself) Eva Svankmajerova Emancipation Cycle Tactile Lids Stunned by Freedom I Don't Know Exactly Alena Nadvorn'kova Emila Medkova's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of Detail Determination of Time Art History (Sandro Botticelli) Ivana Ciglinova The Old Crow's Story Mary Low The Companion Q.E.D. Where the Wolf Sings Encounter Hilary Booth Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music Today Preface to I Am Rain Our Skin Is Paper Poem for Central America Marie-Dominique Massoni Two Seconds How Old Is the Old Mole? Haifa Zangana What Choice? Jayne Cortez When I Look at Wifredo Lam's Paintings Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama Sacred Trees Penelope Rosemont Life and Times of the Golden Goose The Bad Days Will End Revolution by Chance Rikki Ducornet The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi Manifesto in Voices Alice Farley Permutations of Desire Costumes: Vehicles of Transformation Gesture Irene Plazewska Newton's Descent Debra Taub A Dance in the Forest Exquisite Alchemy Secret Melodies Gina Litherland Imagination and Wilderness Ivanir de Oliveira Collage: Image of Revelation Nicole E. Reiss Divagations A Delirious Voyage inside a Circle Elaine Parra To Radicalize with Beauty and Love Sarah Metcalf A Game of Slight Disturbances Katerina Pinosova The Piece of Bone Lenka Valacbova The Sterile Dish Kajsa Bergh Desire Petra Mandal First-Hand Knowledge Nancy Joyce Peters Women and Surrealism Bibliography Index

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""This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism."" Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism. Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

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Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

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