Mirror Images Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. (Presentaion copy: Signed and inscribed by Whitney Chadwick to Peter Selz) (Issued on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and premiering at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and traveling subsequently to the Miami Art Museum and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.)
by Whitney Chadwick; Dawn Ades
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Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.. Autographed. 4to. 193 pp. Soft cover. Very Good. Silver paper wraps with French folds. Some shelf wear and scratches to wraps. Pages fine. Color and B&W plates throughout. Signed and inscribed on Title page. ISBN: 0262531577 9780262531573. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Whitney Chadwick provides a fresh look at women Surrealist artists of the 1930 and 1940s, and finds provocative parallels with many of today's leading women artists including Leonora Carrington; Leonor Fini; Claude Cahun; Eva Hesse; Dorothea Tanning; Louise Bourgeois; Meret Oppenheim; Kay Sage; Frida Kahlo; Ana Mendieta; Michiko Kon; Dorothy Cross; Lindee Climo; Francesca Woodman; Cindy Sherman; Annette Messager; Rona Pondick.Contents: An infinite play of empty mirrors : women, surrealism, and self-representation / Whitney Chadwick --"Vous pour moi?" : Marcel Duchamp and transgender coupling / Dickran Tashjian --In or out of the picture : Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Katy Kline --Frida Kahlo : the self as an end / Salomon Grimberg --Orbits of the savage moon ; surrealism and the representation of the female subject in Mexico and postwar Paris / Dawn Ades --Dialogue and double allegiance : some contemporary women artists and the historical avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman --The self and the world : negotiating boundaries in the art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman / Helaine Posner.
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- Mirror Images Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. (Presentaion copy: Signed and inscribed by Whitney Chadwick to Peter Selz) (Issued on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and premiering at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and traveling subsequently to the Miami Art Museum and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.)
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- Whitney Chadwick; Dawn Ades
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- Used
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262531577
- ISBN 13
- 9780262531573
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- Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
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- Cambridge
- This edition first published
- April 10, 1998
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