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Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
During the 1930s and 1940s, women artists associated with the Surrealist movement produced a significant body of self-images that have no equivalent among the works of their male colleagues. While male artists exalted Woman's otherness in fetishized...
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Salvador Dali: The Construction of the Image, 1925-1930
Felix Fanes
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
As a very young artist in training at the academy in Madrid, Salvador Dalí worked in two distinct modes—a highly detailed naturalism (under the influence of the “return to order”) and a more avant-garde, cubist-derived style that...
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Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
This book is the first to make the case that women's changing role in European and American society was critical to Dada. Debates about birth control and suffrage, a declining male population and expanding female workforce, the emergence of the New...
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Hans Richter: New Living
Andres Janser, Arthur Rüegg, Arthur Ruegg
Lars Müller Publishers
Lars Müller Publishers
"New Living" (Das Neue Wohnen) was the title of an exeptional architectural propaganda film created in 1930 by German avant-garde artist and filmmaker Hans Richter. It showcased exemplary modernist buildings and furniture--some of which were on view...
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The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter
Mary Ann Caws
The MIT Press
The MIT Press
A melting wristwatch. A man in a bowler hat flying through the air. Images such as these became the signatures of surrealism, an art form that tread a finer-than-usual line between avant-garde and hype. Its most famous practitioners were men--Man...
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