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Review: Games of the women. Artists in the Surrealism (Hardcover)

Karoline Hille is in this book artists in front of surrealism. Be discussed in more detail the life and work of the artists Toyen, Claude Cahun, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Meret Oppenheim, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, and Unica Zürn.

Ahead one can in an essay on "Surrealist dream-women deepen women artists of surrealism. "Surrealism was initially a movement in literature later in the painting, which had the appearance of the irrational and dreamlike in the depths of the psychic unconscious to the goal. In 1924 was founded in Paris Surrealist group of artists. The Brenton poet, the main initiator of the movement was defined as follows :"... the Surralismus pure psychic automatism, in which one puts himself in order to bring orally, in writing or in any other way, the real functioning of thought expressed. Man stands under the dictates of the thought stream, all control is through the reason away just like all ästherischen and moral Concerns. "Showed

in the book how difficult it was for the Surrealistinnen be taken seriously by their male colleagues. Brenton mentioned in his essay" Surrealism and Painting "of 1928 not a single woman. Often, the Surrealistinnen made because of their sexual freedom to a mere fetish object of the gaze. This applies not least to Meret Oppenheim, who went into this erotic event. At her shows what happened when the men turned a real artist, one of her surrealistic art figures.

However, it managed a few artists, surrealism, with its images, seals, and photographs a add individual female facet. We read of women artists who were playing with their identities and becoming major dream figures and fantasy creatures. None of the artists of the emazipatorische process was conflict in the pursuit of artistic and human freedom and without pain. This make all the contained in the book, successful artists portraits clearly illustrated with photos but also with photocopies of individual works of artists such as Dorothea Tanning's "Birthday," Kay Sage "I saw three cities," Leonor Fini "The Witch" and Meret Oppenheim's "The Stone Woman".

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