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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