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Zusatztext 'In a compelling manner! Natalya Lusty delineates the tropes! ambiguities! and blind spots that haunt Surrealism by pitting the claims of canonical artists such as Breton against the praxis of their female counterparts! notably Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun. Intelligently positioned in relation to the critical feminist debate surrounding the Surrealist Movement! Lusty's thoughtful and original book shows us what we can learn today from and through the utopian imaginary of revolutionary paradigms such as surrealism and feminism.' Elisabeth Bronfen! University of Zurich! Switzerland. Informationen zum Autor Natalya Lusty is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Klappentext Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of 'the feminine' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun, Joan Riviere and Cindy Sherman in the contexts of canonical figures such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan and the Surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer, the book illuminates the paradox of feminine presence within these movements. Zusammenfassung Combining biographical and textual methods of analysis with historically specific discussions of related cultural sites such as women's magazines, fashion, debutante culture, and sexology, the book examines the ambiguities and blind spots that haunt the work of more central figures such as Andre Breton, Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: disturbing subjects: surrealism, feminism and psychoanalysis; Masking the crime of femininity; Surrealist transgression and feminist subversion; Disturbing the photographic subject; Fashioning the lesbian subject of surrealism; Surrealism, violence and censorship; Conclusion: disturbing the feminist subject; Bibliography; Index....
