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Fantastic women : surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo

Title
Fantastic women : surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo / edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer.
Publication
  • Frankfurt : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; Humlebaek : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ; Munich : Hirmer, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Pfeiffer, Ingrid
  • Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
  • Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), host institution.
Description
419 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (some color); 30 cm
Summary
Frida Kahlo was just one of them: between 1930 and the 1960s many more women artists contributed to the Surrealist movement than has hitherto been assumed. The male Surrealists surrounding André Breton mostly saw them only as partners or models, but this volume shows how much more these women artists had to offer. The dominant topic of male Surrealists was woman as goddess, she-devil, doll, fetish, child-woman, android, and dream creature. The women artists of Surrealism, on the other hand, were searching for a new female identity and incidentally discovered their own language of forms. And then there was the examination of political topics, literature and foreign myths. Painting, drawing, objects, photography and films complement each other to create an overall picture of the surreal and fanciful creative work of the women artists of the avant-garde from all over the world. Exhibition: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (13.02. - 24.05.2020) / Louisiana Museum of modern art, Humlebæk, Denmark (18.06. - 27.09.2020).
Alternative Title
Surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Surrealism > Exhibitions
  • Women artists > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Surrealism
  • Women artists
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 402).
Exhibitions (note)
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, February 13 - May 24, 2020; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, June 18 - September 27, 2020--Colophon.
Contents
Fantastic Women In Europe, The US, And Mexico / Ingrid Pfeiffer -- 'Great Art Is Always Male-Female' : Meret Oppenheim and the Utopian Dream of Androgyny / Heike Eipeldauer -- Fantastic Visions : Women Photographers and Surrealism / Patricia Allmer -- Germaine Dulac, The Seashell And The Clergyman / Rebecca Herlemann -- Sheila Legge : Pork Chop or Not / Silvano Levy -- Jane Graverol And Rachel Baes : The Feminine Side of Belgian Surrealism / Laura Neve -- 'I Am Not A Painter' : The Toyen Universe / Annabelle Görgen-Lammers -- Dorothea Tanning, Surrealism, And 'Unknown But Knowable States' Of Being / Alyce Mahon -- Maya Deren, Meshes Of The Afternoon / Rebecca Herlemann -- Leonora Carrington : A Door into an Imaginary Self / Gabriel Weisz Carrington -- Magical Encounters : The Surrealist Women in Mexico / Tere Arcq -- Unica Zürn And The Sister Arts / Karoline Hille -- 'I'm not searching for an identity. I have too much identity.' : The Sculptress Louise Bourgeois and the Spirit of Surrealism / Christiane Meyer-Thoss -- Louise Bourgeois In Words -- Artists' biographies / Rebecca Herlemann and Kirsten Degel.
Call Number
JQF 20-996
ISBN
  • 9783777434148
  • 3777434140
OCLC
1143745753
Title
Fantastic women : surreal worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo / edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer.
Publisher
Frankfurt : Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; Humlebaek : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ; Munich : Hirmer, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 402).
Exhibitions
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, February 13 - May 24, 2020; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, June 18 - September 27, 2020--Colophon.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, editor.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, host institution.
Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), host institution.
Other Form:
9783777434131 German edition
9788793659308 English museum edition
Research Call Number
JQF 20-996
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