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The Militant Muse - Love, War and the Women of Surrealism (Hardcover)
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The Militant Muse - Love, War and the Women of Surrealism (Hardcover)
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The Militant Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious
and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by
celebrated men whose educational, philosophical and literary
backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger
lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s,
Whitney Chadwick charts five intense, far-reaching female
friendships among the Surrealists to show how Surrealism, female
friendship and the experiences of war, loss and trauma shaped
individual women's transitions from beloved muses to mature
artists. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude
Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe's subversive activities in occupied
Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine
Penrose at the frontline. Chadwick draws on personal correspondence
between women, including the extraordinary letters between Leonora
Carrington and Leonor Fini during the months following the arrest
and imprisonment of Carrington's lover Max Ernst at the beginning
of World War Two, and the letter Frida Kahlo shared with her friend
and lover Jacqueline Lamba years after it was written in the late
1930s during a difficult stay in Paris, marred by her intense
dislike of Breton. Thoroughly engrossing, this history brings a new
perspective to the political context of Surrealism, as well as
fresh insights on the vital importance of female friendship to its
artistic and intellectual flowering.
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