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Informationen zum Autor Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This anthology displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their ChallengeNotes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929 Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréalisteRenée Gauthier Dream: I Am in a Field...Simone Kahn Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...The Exquisite CorpsesDenise Levy Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...Nancy Cunard Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev BalletThe Beginnings of the Surrealist RevolutionSurrealism, Ethnography, and RevolutionNadja The Blue WindFanny Beznos I Go, the Wind Pushing Me AlongPurity! Purity! Purity!Suzanne Muzard On Love: Reply to an InquiryMy Passage in SurrealismValentine Penrose When It Comes to Love: Response to an InquirySuzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy Surrealist Games2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939 Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the ThirtiesClaude Cabun Captive BalloonThe Invisible AdventurePoetry Keeps Its SecretSurrealism and Working-Class EmancipationFrom life I still expect that overwhelming experienceBeware Domestic Objects!Nancy Cunard How Come, White Man?The Scottsboro CaseA Trip to HarlemSimone Yoyotte Pale Blue Line in a Forced EpisodeHalf-SeasonGreta Knutson Foreign LandLise Deharme The Empty CageThe Little Girl of the Black ForestDenise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the SeersMaruja Mallo Surrealism as Manifest in My WorkMeret Oppenheim Where Is the Wagon Going?If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...Jacqueline Lamba A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the WorldGisèle Prassinos Arrogant HairThe Ghost of ChateaubriandToyen A Community of Ethical ViewsAlice Rahon Four Poems from On the Bare GroundDespairHourglass Lying DownValentine Penrose There Is the FireThe Datura the SerpentTo a Woman to a PathSheila Legge I Have Done My Best For YouEileen Agar Am I a Surrealist?Mary Low Women and the Spanish RevolutionMarcelle Ferry You Came down from the Mountains...When He Went Away...The On...
