
Gradiva's Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism and Art History
ISBN10: 1877675377ISBN13: 978-1877675379
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Title: Gradiva's Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism and Art History
Publisher: Midmarch Arts Pr; First Edition edition (February 2002)
Language: English
Size ePub: 1445 kb
Size PDF: 1682 kb
Rating: 3.6/5
Votes: 361
Pages: 302 pages
Subcategory: History & Criticism
Gradiva's Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism and Art History
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Gradivas Mirror is structured as a chronological "triptych." The three sections focus on the decades following: 1929, the year women began to have a significant presence in Parisian Surrealism; 1939, the year World War II was declared and many European artists fled to the Americas in order to avoid persecution by Hitler; and 1949, the year several Surrealist women who had settled in Mexico City began sustained periods of mature and independent work. Each section of the book begins with a description of the nature of Surrealism at that time and concludes with an imagined conversation between the author and the women featured in that section. The introduction to Gradivas Mirror is written by Gloria Orenstein, renowned ecofeminist and scholar, who has published extensively on the women of Surrealism.