Format:
256 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780500239681
Content:
The militant muse' documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five female friendships among the Surrealists to show how Surrealism, female friendship, and the experiences of war, loss, and trauma shaped individual women's transitions from someone else's muse to mature artists in their own right. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the front line. Chadwick draws on personal correspondence between women, including the extraordinary letters between Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini during the months following the arrest and imprisonment of Carrington's lover Max Ernst and the letter Frida Kahlo shared with her friend and lover Jacqueline Lamba years after it was written in the late 1930s. This history brings a new perspective to the political context of Surrealism as well as fresh insights on the vital importance of female friendship to its progress
Language:
English
Keywords:
Rahon, Alice 1913-1987
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Carrington, Leonora 1917-2011
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Fini, Leonor 1908-1996
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Kahlo, Frida 1907-1954
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Lamba, Jacqueline 1910-1993
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Cahun, Claude 1894-1954
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Malherbe, Suzanne 1892-1972
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Miller, Lee 1907-1977
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Penrose, Valentine 1898-1978
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Surrealismus
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Künstlerin
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Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
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Freundschaft
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Geschichte 1937-1978
Author information:
Chadwick, Whitney 1943-
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