Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five intense, far-reaching female friendships among the surrealists to show how surrealism and the experiences of war, loss and trauma shaped individual women's transitions from beloved muses to mature artists. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe's subversive activities in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the frontline.
Notes
Thames & Hudson London published this book with the same ISBN in 2017 with title: The militant muse : love, war and the women of surrealism.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-247) and index.
Contents
The alchemy of desire: Valentine Penrose and Alice Rahon Paalen, India 1937
The two Leonors: Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche, 1938-41
'I will write to you with my eyes' Frida Kahlo and Jacqueline Lamba Breton, Mexico and Paris, 1938-45
Soldiers without names Claude Cahun, Suzanne Malherbe and Jacqueline Lamba Breton, Jersey, 1938-45
Wars without end Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose, 1940-78.
Other title(s)
Love, war and the women of surrealism
ISBN
9780500239681 ((hardcover))
0500239681 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017931850
OCLC
975365900
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