Intersections

Demonstrates the significant roles taken by women artists within the history of modern and contemporary art, and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons.

IntroductionPart I: Automatic practices1. Four 'outsiders', four women: surrealism and the psychic elsewhere - Colin Rhodes2. Photographic automatism: surrealism and feminist (post?)modernism in Susan Hiller's Sisters of Menon - Katharine Conley3. The surrealist script(s): Bourgeois, Chadwick, Hiller - Guy ReynoldsPart II: Poetic practices4. Savage balm: Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme - Jonathan P. Eburne5. Emma's navel: Dorothea Tanning's narrative sculpture - Catriona McAra6. Trespassing boundaries: Liminality, hybridity and the quest for identity in Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door - Victoria Ferentinou7. Screams: Women in post-war surrealist journals - Hazel DonkinPart III: Magical practices8. Desert islands: magic and modernity in the work of Ithell Colquhoun - Neil Matheson9. 'The Old Horizon Withdraws': surrealist connections in Martinique and Haiti - Suzanne Césaire and André Breton, Maya Deren and André Pierre - Terri GeisPart IV: Combinatory practices10. Helen Lundeberg, an oxymoron - Ilene Susan Fort11. Lee Miller's signscapes - Patricia Allmer12. Aube Elléouët's collages: Ricochets - Elza Adamowicz13. Birgit Jürgenssen's poetic surrealist feminism - Gabriele SchorPart V: Practices of fashion14. Feathers, flowers, and flux: Artifice in the costumes of Leonor Fini - Rachael Grew15. Surrealist? Modernist? Artist? The vicissitudes of Elsa Schiaparelli - Emma WestIndex