Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

Whitney Chadwick is an art historian and educator, who has published widely on contemporary art, modernism, Surrealism, and gender and sexuality. Among her many books are Women, Art and Society, The Militant Muse and, with Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership.

• Introduction1. Search for a Muse2. The Muse as Artist3. Revolution and Sexuality4. The Female Earth: Nature and the Imagination5. Women Artists and the Hermetic Tradition6. Cycles of Narrative FantasyNotes

'Presents a wealth of imagery and information about artists who commanded respect from their male contemporaries…as such it will be of great value both in reassessing the history of Surrealism and in illuminating the persistent marginalization of women’s art' - The Oxford Art Journal