Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Whitney Chadwick, Dawn Ades

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English

Thames & Hudson
07 October 2021

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Gender studies: women

This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, became an embodiment of their age as they struggled towards artistic maturity and their own 'liberation of the spirit' in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and their achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico.

With 145 illustrations in colour

By: Whitney Chadwick
Foreword by: Dawn Ades
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780500296165
ISBN 10: 0500296162
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 07 October 2021
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Whitney Chadwick is an art historian and educator, who has published widely on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Among her many books are Women, Art and Society, The Militant Muse and, with Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership.

Reviews for Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

'Admirable' - Burlington Magazine 'Professor Chadwick's book has been centrally important and has initiated a vital re-centring of the whole Surrealist enterprise' - Times Higher Education Supplement 'Presents a wealth of imagery and information about artists who commanded respect from their male contemporaries...as such it will be of great value both in reassessing the history of Surrealism and in illuminating the persistent marginalization of women's art' - The Oxford Art Journal