Penelope Rosemont

Surrealist Women

An International Anthology
Herausgeber: Rosemont, Penelope

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Surrealist Revolution Series
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9780292770881
• ISBN-10: 029277088X
• Artikelnr.: 21043709

Autorenporträt

Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Acknowledgments
3. Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their
Challenge
4. Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology
5. 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929
6. Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréaliste
7. Renée Gauthier
* Dream: I Am in a Field...
8. Simone Kahn
* Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...
* The Exquisite Corpses
9. Denise Levy
* Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...
* Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...
10. Nancy Cunard
* Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet
* The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution
* Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution
11. Nadja
* The Blue Wind
12. Fanny Beznos
* I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along
* Purity! Purity! Purity!
13. Suzanne Muzard
* On Love: Reply to an Inquiry
* My Passage in Surrealism
14. Valentine Penrose
* When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry
15. Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy
* Surrealist Games
16. 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939
17. Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties
18. 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!
19. Nancy Cunard
* How Come, White Man?
* The Scottsboro Case
* A Trip to Harlem
20. Simone Yoyotte
* Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode
* Half-Season
21. Greta Knutson
* Foreign Land
22. Lise Deharme
* The Empty Cage
* The Little Girl of the Black Forest
23. Denise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero
* Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The
Crystal Ball of the Seers
24. Maruja Mallo
* Surrealism as Manifest in My Work
25. Meret Oppenheim
* Where Is the Wagon Going?
* If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...
* Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...
26. Jacqueline Lamba
* A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World
27. Gisèle Prassinos
* Arrogant Hair
* The Ghost of Chateaubriand
28. Toyen
* A Community of Ethical Views
29. Alice Rahon
* Four Poems from On the Bare Ground
* Despair
* Hourglass Lying Down
30. Valentine Penrose
* There Is the Fire
* The Datura the Serpent
* To a Woman to a Path
31. Sheila Legge
* I Have Done My Best For You
32. Eileen Agar
* Am I a Surrealist?
33. Mary Low
* Women and the Spanish Revolution
34. 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...
35. Leonora Carrington
* The Sand Camel
36. Grace Pailthorpe
* What We Put in Prison
* The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism
* Surrealist Art
* On the Importance of Fantasy Life
37. Hélène Vanel
* Poetry and Dance
38. Ithell Colquhoun
* What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?
39. Jeanne Megnen
* The Noise Will Start Tomorrow
40. 3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945
41. Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New
Beginnings
42. Suzanne Césaire
* André Breton, Poet
* Discontent of a Civilization
* 1943: Surrealism and Us
* The Domain of the Marvelous
43. Mary Low
* Perchance to Dream
* Women and Love through Private Property
44. Frida Kahlo
* I Paint My Own Reality
* From Her Journal
45. Lucie Thésée
* Beautiful as...
* The Buckets in My Head...
* Where Will the Earth Fall?
46. Leonora Carrington
* Down Below
47. Régine Raufast
* Photography and Image
48. Laurence Iché
* Scissors Strokes by the Clock...
* I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...
* Unpublished Correspondence
* The Philosophers' Stone
49. Gertrude Pape
* The Lake
* Eardrops from Babylon
50. Susy Hare
* Complaint for a Sorcerer
51. Sonia Sekula
* Womb
52. Meret Oppenheim
* Round the World with the Rumpus God....
53. Ithell Colquhoun
* "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"
* Water-Stone of the Wise
54. Emmy Bridgwater
* On the Line
* Back to the First Bar
* The Journey
* The Birds
55. Edith Rimmington
* The Growth at the Break
* The Sea-Gull
56. Alice Rahon
* Pointed Out Like the Stars...
* Little Epidermis
* Sublimated Mercury
* The Appellants
* Ferns in a Hollow of Absence...
* The Sleeping Woman
57. Eva Sulzer
* Butterfly Dreams
* Amerindian Art
58. Jacqueline Johnson
* The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen
* The Earth
59. Ida Kar
* I Chose Photography
60. Ikbal El Alailly
* Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]
61. 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959
62. Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist
Underground in the 1950s
63. Thérèse Renaud
* I Lay My Head
64. Françoise Sullivan
* Dance and Automatism
65. Iréne Hamoir
* Pearl
* Aria
* The Procession
66. Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington
* Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?
67. Lise Deharme
* I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein
68. Maria Martins
* I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon
* Art, Liberation, and Peace
69. Helen Phillips
* The Image: Recognition of a Moment
70. Vera Hérold
* The Big L
71. Gisèle Prassinos
* Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls
72. Ithell Colquhoun
* The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism
73. Dorothea Tanning
* Legend
74. Nora Mitrani
* Scandal with a Secret Face
* "Blacker Than Black. . ."
* About Cats and Magnolias
* Poetry, Freedom of Being
* On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip
* Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of
Eroticism
75. Valentine Penrose
* I Dream
* Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter
76. Jacqueline Johnson
* Taking a Sight 1951
77. Alice Rahon
* Painter and Magician
78. Jacqueline Senard
* Reason and Safety Factors
* Cat=Clover
* Polar
79. Elisa Breton
* One in the Other
80. Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen
* Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?
81. Joyce Mansour
* Into the Red Velvet
* Lovely Monster
* Practical Advice for Waiting
* To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct
Lexicon of Eroticism
82. Meret Oppenheim
* Automatism at a Crossroads
* I Have to Write Down the Black Words
83. Judit Reigl
* Points of Departure for a New Revolt
84. Isabel Meyrelles
* Night Words
85. Anneliese Hager
* Of the Poison of Dreams
* The Blue Spell
* Automatic Dream
86. Drahomira Vandas
* Light Throws Shadows
* An Egg Hatches Out a Flame
* Rain Man
87. Olga Orozco
* Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)
88. Blanca Varela
* Dance Card
89. Marianne van Hirtum
* In Those Rooms...
* Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct
Lexicon of Eroticism
90. Leonora Carrington
* Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony
* On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996
91. Kay Sage
* Painter and Writer
* An Observation
* The Window
* Chinoiserie
* Fragrance
92. Mimi Parent
* Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the
Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
93. Sonia Sekula
* Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face
94. Remedios Varo
* A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams
95. 5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels
96. Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s
97. Nora Mitrani
* In Defense of Surrealism
98. Nelly Kaplan
* Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner
* At the Women Warriors' Table
* Enough or Still More
* All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview
99. Nicole Espagnol
* Female Socket
* Heartstopping
* The Conclusion Is Not Drawn
* The Wind Turns
100. Annie Le Brun
* Introduction to Drop Everything!
101. Giovanna
* Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?
* Baking Chocolate and Dialectics
* What Do I Know...
* Therapy
102. Monique Charbonel
* It's a Wonder
103. Unica Zürn
* Lying in Ambush
104. Elisabeth Lenk
* Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany Today
* Automatic Text for Anne Ethuin
105. Penelope Rosemont
* Passage
* Candle
* Rising Asleep
106. Joyce Mansour
* A Mango
* Night in the Shape of a Bison
* Ten to One to No
* Wild Glee from Elsewhere
* Absolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition,
1965-1966
107. Mimi Parent
* Are You a Surrealist?
108. Marianne van Hirtum
* The Future of Surrealism: Response to an Inquiry
* While We Spend Our Lives Ironing...
* And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...
* The Naked Truth
* Vampiro Nox
* Surrealism: Rising Sign
109. Anne Ethuin
* Legend
110. Isabel Meyrelles
* I Will Tell You During the Walk...
* Tyger, Tyger
111. Luiza Neto Jorge
* Another Genealogy
* "Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)
* Fable
* The Force of Gravity
* Sphericity: Ferocity
112. Alejandra Pizarnik
* Caroline von Günderode
* In a Copy of Les Chants de Maldoror
113. Leila Ferraz
* Secrets of Surrealist Magic Art
* My Love, I Speak to You of a Love
114. Rikki Ducornet
* My Special Madness
* Necromancy
* Dark Star, Black Star
* Machete
* Clean
115. Nancy Joyce Peters
* To the Death of Mirrors
* General Strike
* Nelly Kaplan's Néa: Woman and Eroticism in Film
116. Alice Farley
* Notes toward a Surrealist Dance
117. Jayne Cortez
* Consultation
* Feathers
* In the Line of Duty
* Make Ifa
* Say It
118. Haifa Zangana
* Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?
* A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm
Al-Andalusi
119. Hilary Booth
* Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' Potlatch
120. Hilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub
* Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' Potlatch
121. Valentine Penrose
* From These Husks Are Worlds Made
122. Leonora Carrington
* What Is a Woman?
* The Cabbage Is a Rose
123. Meret Oppenheim
* Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It
124. 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century
125. Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and Tomorrow
126. Silvia Grénier
* Salomé
* Signs
127. Carmen Bruna
* Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt
* "Lady from Shanghai"
* Moi-Même (Myself)
128. Eva Svankmajerová
* Emancipation Cycle
* Tactile Lids
* Stunned by Freedom
* I Don't Know Exactly
129. Alena Nádvorn'ková
* Emila Medková's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of Detail
* Determination of Time
* Art History (Sandro Botticelli)
130. Ivana Ciglinová
* The Old Crow's Story
131. Mary Low
* The Companion
* Q.E.D.
* Where the Wolf Sings
* Encounter
132. Hilary Booth
* Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music Today
* Preface to I Am Rain
* Our Skin Is Paper
* Poem for Central America
133. Marie-Dominique Massoni
* Two Seconds
* How Old Is the Old Mole?
134. Haifa Zangana
* What Choice?
135. Jayne Cortez
* When I Look at Wifredo Lam's Paintings
* Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama
* Sacred Trees
136. Penelope Rosemont
* Life and Times of the Golden Goose
* The Bad Days Will End
* Revolution by Chance
137. Rikki Ducornet
* The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi
* Manifesto in Voices
138. Alice Farley
* Permutations of Desire
* Costumes: Vehicles of Transformation
* Gesture
139. Irene Plazewska
* Newton's Descent
140. Debra Taub
* A Dance in the Forest
* Exquisite Alchemy
* Secret Melodies
141. Gina Litherland
* Imagination and Wilderness
142. Ivanir de Oliveira
* Collage: Image of Revelation
143. Nicole E. Reiss
* Divagations
* A Delirious Voyage inside a Circle
144. Elaine Parra
* To Radicalize with Beauty and Love
145. Sarah Metcalf
* A Game of Slight Disturbances
146. Katerina Pinosová
* The Piece of Bone
147. Lenka Valacbová
* The Sterile Dish
148. Kajsa Bergh
* Desire
149. Petra Mandal
* First-Hand Knowledge
150. Nancy Joyce Peters
* Women and Surrealism
151. Bibliography
152. Index