192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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How did women Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun take up the question of female identity in terms of their own aesthetic and intellectual practice? What was the response of women analysts such as Joan Riviere to Freud's psychoanalytic construction of femininity? These are among the questions that Natalya Lusty brings to her sophisticated and theoretically informed... Read more
Contents: Introduction: disturbing subjects: surrealism, feminism and psychoanalysis; Masking the crime of femininity; Surrealist transgression and feminist subversion; Disturbing the photographic subject; Fashioning the lesbian subject of surrealism; Surrealism, violence and censorship; Conclusion: disturbing the feminist subject; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Natalya Lusty is a Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.
'In a compelling manner, Natalya Lusty delineates the tropes, ambiguities, and blind spots that haunt Surrealism by pitting the claims of canonical artists such as Breton against the praxis of their female counterparts, notably Leonora Carrington and Claude Cahun. Intelligently positioned in relation to the critical feminist debate surrounding the Surrealist Movement, Lusty's thoughtful and original book shows us what we can learn today from and through the utopian imaginary of revolutionary paradigms such as surrealism and feminism.' Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
