In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3791351419 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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TERE ARCQ is Adjunct Curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. . ILENE SUSAN FORT is the Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"This nice and heavy book (which includes more than 200 works of art) features the kickass work of Mexican and U.S.-based women artists and shows how women used surrealism as a way to explore their subconscious and express their perspectives on issues such as gender and female sexuality - ultimately making surrealism a movement of their own." --BUST Magazine"For far too long, surrealism has been associated solely with male minds…But in fact, as this powerful new collection proves, female artists in the movement were a powerful force - delving deeply into their own subconscious and dreams…It is a journey, not just through the Americas, but through the unconscious…There is so much to revisit and rediscover here." --Feministing"In Wonderland… celebrates the work of 48 visionaries, including Lola Alvarez Bravo's dreamy photocollages, Dorothea Tanning's soft sculptures, and iconic paintings by Frida Kahlo." --Elle Décor"Essential to anyone who has serious interest in surreal and fantastic art." --Locus"In Wonderland…expands the surrealist canon." --CHOICE
lisaleo (Lisa Yount) said new people, new pictures. Whether or not you can see the exhibit on which this book is based (I wish I could have), I highly recommend the book itself as a welcome addition to the very limited supply of books on women Surrealist artists as a group (I know of only two, Whitney Chadwick's Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement--start with this one--and Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, edited by Patricia Allmer). The pictures in the book are large, plentiful, a. "A Timely, Controversial Exhibition Catalogue" according to Grady Harp. IN WONDERLAND is due to open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this month and promises to be one of the fines exhibits presented by this now formidable institution. The subtitle is revealing: THE SURREALIST ADVENTURES OF WOMEN ARTISTS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES as this exhibition fills a significant gap in our studies of the Surrealist Art movement; women artists have all but been excluded in the ranks of the Surrealist School. Now, thanks . Astonishingly vivid & evocative work OwlSong While the original Surrealists were largely male, sometimes oppressively so for all their brilliance, it's fascinating to see how the women artists have endured as creative forces in the long run. Leonora Carrington was still painting well into her late 90s, and Dorothea Tanning continued to write poetry & memoir up to her death just a month shy of her 102nd birthday. This exhibit catalogue of 48 women & their ongoing life's work is a revelation, with
From 1931, the year of Lee Miller's first surreal photograph, to 1968,when Yayoi Kusama presented her landmark happening "Alice in Wonderland" in New York's Central Park, the artists and works depicted here are both significant and extraordinary in their explorations of personal and universal truths.. This volume features the work of48 Mexican and U.S.-based women artists whose contributions to the surrealist movement span more than four decades and whose work was both influential and radical in its own right. Thematically arranged, it includes more than 250 full-color images along with several essays exploring the effects ofgeography and gender on the movement. The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Filled with a