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Intersections : Women Artists/surrealism/modernism
Intersections : Women Artists/surrealism/modernism
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ISBN No.: 9780719096488
Pages: 328
Year: 201609
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 193.20
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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.


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