Research Catalog

Title

Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation / edited by Whitney Chadwick ; essays by Dawn Ades ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chadwick, Whitney.
• Ades, Dawn.

Description

xiii, 193 p. : ill (some col.); 28 cm.

Subject

• Women artists > Psychology
• Self-perception in women
• Self-portraits
• Surrealism

Note

• "Issued on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and premiering at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and traveling subsequently to the Miami Art Museum and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-183) and index.

Contents

An infinite play of empty mirrors : women, surrealism, and self-representation / Whitney Chadwick -- "Vous pour moi?" : Marcel Duchamp and transgender coupling / Dickran Tashjian -- In or out of the picture : Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Katy Kline -- Frida Kahlo : the self as an end / Salomon Grimberg -- Orbits of the savage moon ; surrealism and the representation of the female subject in Mexico and postwar Paris / Dawn Ades -- Dialogue and double allegiance : some contemporary women artists and the historical avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The self and the world : negotiating boundaries in the art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman / Helaine Posner.

Call Number

JQZ 12-3562

ISBN

0262531577 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97046576

OCLC

38090867

Title

Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation / edited by Whitney Chadwick ; essays by Dawn Ades ... [et al.].

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-183) and index.

Added Author

Chadwick, Whitney.

Ades, Dawn.

Research Call Number

JQZ 12-3562