- Paperback: 207 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (April 9 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262531577
- ISBN-13: 978-0262531573
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 20.3 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #60 in Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Women in Art
- #74 in Books > Arts & Photography > Schools, Periods & Styles > Surrealism
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Seven essays are published here, one contributed by Chadwick herself, a well-known specialist on women artists who were part of the surrealist movement. The resulting anthology, which serves as a catalog to an exhibition traveling from fall 1998 through early 1999, is a fairly comprehensive look at the self-portraiture of contemporary women using feminist critical theory. The essayists find strong links between modernist historical Surrealism and contemporary women artists while highlighting the strategies of "displacement, doubling, fragmentation, and fetishizing of the baby" that frequently appear in works by Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Dorothy Cross, and Ana Mendieta, among others. Of widest interest are the essays on Marcel Duchamp/Rose Selavy, Claude Cahun, and Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo. Recommended.?Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson Univ., MD
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Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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" Mirror Images is a welcome successor to Whitney Chadwick"ssignificant work on the hitherto neglected history of women andsurrealism. An impressive list of contributors explores the byways,bringing this tragic, funny, and engrossing story up to recent times." Lucy Lippard , author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art
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Excellent analysis of Women and Surrealism,
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This review is from: Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (Paperback)
Although the publication of "Women and Surrealism" by Whitney Chadwick in the 1980s brought about a larger appreciation of women involved in the movement, there is still a surprising shortage of material published about surrealist artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self Representation" offers a series of insightful essays on these and other artists' images and ideas of self. Most interestingly, many of the essays discuss the work of Surrealist "descendents," including Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois. Overall, very well constructed and written, with essays by the leading scholars in this still under-appreciated area.
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Excellent analysis of Women and Surrealism,
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This review is from: Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (Paperback)
Although the publication of "Women and Surrealism" by Whitney Chadwick in the 1980s brought about a larger appreciation of women involved in the movement, there is still a surprising shortage of material published about surrealist artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. "Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self Representation" offers a series of insightful essays on these and other artists' images and ideas of self. Most interestingly, many of the essays discuss the work of Surrealist "descendents," including Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois. Overall, very well constructed and written, with essays by the leading scholars in this still under-appreciated area.
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