Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as Andr� Breton's Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive study of the lived reality of women surrealist artists with mental illness. How did women's experience and their work intersect with this romanticized vision?
Was the masculine dream of feminized, "mad" genius prohibitive or productive for these women artists? After establishing the ideological field within which these women worked, the book turns to case studies of well-known and some lesser-known artists, including �ngeles Santos, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Sonja Sekula, and Unica Z�rn. This collection of essays contains a wide range of responses, revealing surrealism's generative as well as restrictive force.
| ISBN: | 9781807076443 |
| Publication date: | 19th January 2027 |
| Author: | |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art The Arts: treatments and subjects |
Female mental illness has been a prominent and complicated theme in surrealist cultural traditions, including the idealization of women with mental illness in works such as Andr� Breton's Nadja (1928). Art historians have examined this tendency before, but to date there has been no comprehensive study of the lived reality of women surrealist artists with mental illness.
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