Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli / Four 'outsiders' four women: surrealism and the psychic elsewhere / Emma West. Photographic automatism: surrealism and feminist (post?)modernism in Susan Hiller's Sisters of Menon / Katharine Conley -- The surrealist script(s): Bourgeois, Chadwick, Hiller / Guy Reynolds -- Savage balm: Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme / Jonathan P. Eburne -- Emma's navel: Dorothea Tanning's narrative sculpture / Catriona McAra -- Trespassing boundaries: liminality, hybridity and the quest for identity in Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door / Victoria Ferentinou -- Screams: women in post-war surrealist journals / Hazel Donkin -- Desert islands: magic and modernity in th world of Ithell Colquhoun / Neil Matheson -- "The Old Horizon Withdraws": surrealist connections in Martinique and Haiti - Suzanne Cesaire and Anre Breton, Maya Deren and Andre Pierre / Terri Geis -- Helen Lundeberg, an oxymoron / Ilene Susan Fort -- Lee Miller's signscapes / Patricia Allmer -- Aube Elleouet's collages: Richochets / Elza Adamowicz -- Birgit Jurgenssen's poetic surrealist feminism / Gabriele Schor -- Feathers, flowers, and flux: artifice in the costumes of Leonor Fini / Rachael Grew -- Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli / Emma West.
Summary:
Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on women artists working in and with surrealism in the context of modernism. In doing so it redefines critical understanding of the complex relations between all three terms. The essays address work produced in a wide variety of international contexts and across several generations of surrealist production by women closely connected to the surrealist movement or more marginally influenced by it. Intersections explores work in a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to film and fashion, by artists including Susan Hiller, Maya Deren, Birgit Jurgenssen, Aube Elleouet, Dorothea Tanning, Claude Cahun, Elsa Schiaparelli, Joyce Mansour, Leonor Fini, Mimi Parent, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun and Eileen Agar.
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