This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, becames an embodiment of their age as they struggled towards artistic maturity and their own "liberation of the spirit" in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and their achievements are presented here against the...
This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement.