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050			_aN6555.5.S8I5 2012
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245		0	_aIn Wonderland _b: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States _c/ Edited by Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq with Terri Geis
260			_bLos Angeles County Museum of Art; Del Monico Books, Prestel Verlag UK/NY; _c2012
300			_a256p; _c30x27cm
520			_aFilled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement. The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Conversely, the female artists of the movement delved primarily into their own subconscious and dreams. This volume features the work of 48 Mexican and U.S.-based women artists whose contributions to the surrealist movement span more than four decades and whose work was both influential and radical in its own right. Thematically arranged, it includes more than 250 full-color images along with several essays exploring the effects of geography and gender on the movement. This unique book illustrates surrealism as a gateway to self-discovery, especially in North America, where women artists were freed from oppressive European traditions and the vagaries of war. From 1931, the year of Lee Miller’s first surreal photograph, to 1968, when Yayoi Kusama presented her landmark happening “Alice in Wonderland” in New York’s Central Park, the artists and works depicted here are both significant and extraordinary in their explorations of personal and universal truths. ------------Contributors: Ilene Susan Fort; Tere Arcq; Terri Geis; Dawn Ades; Maria Buszek; Whitney Chadwick; Rita Eder; Gloria Feman Orenstein; Salomon Grimberg.
546			_aEnglish
648			_a20th century
650			_aN5300-7418 Visual Arts- History
650			_aWomen Artists. _91573
650			_aSurrealism _91704
651			_aUSA _91368
651			_aLatin America _91705
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