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Title: THE MILITANT MUSE
LOVE, WAR AND THE WOMEN OF SURREALISM
By: Whitney Chadwick
Format: Hardback

List price: £24.95


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ISBN 10: 0500239681
ISBN 13: 9780500239681
Publisher: THAMES & HUDSON LTD
Pub. date: 1 October, 2017
Pages: 256
Description: A fascinating examination of the ambitions and friendships of a talented group of midcentury women artists
Synopsis: Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five female friendships among the Surrealists to show how Surrealism, female friendship, and the experiences of war, loss, and trauma shaped individual women's transitions from someone else's muse to mature artists in their own right. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine Penrose at the front line. Chadwick draws on personal correspondence between women, including the extraordinary letters between Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini during the months following the arrest and imprisonment of Carrington's lover Max Ernst and the letter Frida Kahlo shared with her friend and lover Jacqueline Lamba years after it was written in the late 1930s.This history brings a new perspective to the political context of Surrealism as well as fresh insights on the vital importance of female friendship to its progress.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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