Surrealist Women

by Rosemont, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780292770881
• ISBN10: 029277088X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written.... It should become a standard text of surrealism." --Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge

Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology

The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929

Introduction: The Women of La RTvolution surrTaliste-RenTe Gauthier

Dream: I Am in a Field...-Simone Kahn

Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...

The Exquisite Corpses-Denise Levy

Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...

Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...-Nancy Canard

Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet

The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution

Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution-Nadja

The Blue Wind-Fanny Beznos

I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along

Purity! Purity! Purity!-Suzanne Muzard

On Love: Reply to an Inquiry

My Passage in Surrealism-Valentine Penrose

When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry-Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy

Surrealist Games

In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939

Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties-Claude Cabun

Captive Balloon- The Invisible Adventure

Poetry Keeps Its Secret

Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation- From life I still expect that overwhelming experience

Beware Domestic Objects!-Nancy Cunard

How Come, White Man?

The Scottsboro Case

A Trip to Harlem-Simone Yoyotte

Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode

Half-Season-Greta Knutson

Foreign Land-Lise Debarme

The Empty Cage

The Little Girl of the Black Forest-Denise Bellon, Gala Dalf, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero

Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers-Maruja Mallo

Surrealism as Manifest in My Work-Meret Oppenbeim

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 World-GisFle Prassinos

Arrogant Hair

The Ghost of Chateaubriand-Toyen

A Community of Ethical Views-Alice Rahon

Four Poems from On the Bare Ground

Despair

Hourglass Lying Down-Valentine Penrose

There Is the Fire

The Datura the Serpent

To a Woman to a Path-Sheila Legge

I Have Done My Best For You-Eileen Agar

Am I a Surrealist?-Mary Low

Women and the Spanish Revolution-Marcelle Ferry

You Came down from the Mountains...

When He Went Away...

The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...

Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...-Leonora Carrington- The Sand Camel-Grace Pailthorpe

What We Put in Prison

The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism

Surrealist Art

On the Importance of Fantasy Life-HTlFne Vanel

Poetry and Dance-Ithell Colquhoun

What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?-Jeanne Megnen

The Noise Will Start Tomorrow

Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945

Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings-Suzanne CTsaire

AndrT Breton, Poet

Discontent of a Civilization- 1943: Surrealism and Us

The Domain of the Marvelous-Mary Low

Perchance to Dream

Women and Love through Private Property-Frida Kahlo

I Paint My Own Reality

From Her Journal-Lucie ThTsTe

Beautiful as...

The Buckets in My Head...

Where Will the Earth Fall?-Leonora Carrington

Down Below-RTgine Raufast

Photography and Image-Laurence IchT

Scissors Strokes by the Clock...

I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...

Unpublished Correspondence

The Philosophers'' Stone-Gertrude Pape

The Lake

Eardrops from Babylon-Susy Hare

Complaint for a Sorcerer-Sonia Sekula

Womb-Meret Oppenbeim

Round the World with the Rumpus God....-Ithell Colquhoun

"Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"

Water-Stone of the Wise-Emmy Bridgwater

On the Line

Back to the First Bar

The Journey

The Birds-Edith Rimmington

The Growth at the Break

The Sea-Gull-Alice Rahon

Pointed Out Like the Stars...

Little Epidermis

Sublimated Mercury

The Appellants

Ferns in a Hollow of Absence...

The Sleeping Woman-Eva Sulzer

Butterfly Dreams

Amerindian Art-J

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