Surrealist Women Artists and Mental Illness

Surrealists idealized feminine madness for its purportedly unfettered access to the unconscious. At the same time, an unusually large number of surrealist women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Frida Kahlo, experienced mental illness. Die these women find the dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive-or productive?

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jenny Anger
• Mitarbeit: Anger Jenny (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2026
• Thema: Ratgeber > Gesundheit > Erkrankungen, Heilverfahren; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte
• EAN: 9781526180704
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8070-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 232
• Themen: Frida Kahlo, ART / Criticism & Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, ART / Women Artists, Surrealism, Women's health, Meret Oppenheim, History of Art, women artists, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada, The Arts: treatments and subjects, Sonja Sekula, Mad Studies, ART / History / 20th & 21st Century, ART / Movements / Modernism, psychosis and art, women surrealists', problematic art histories, fetishization of mental illness, lived experience of mental illness, romanticising mental illness, schizophrenia and art, 'genius' and 'madness', female mental illness