20th Century Art and the Realm of Surrealism

Female contributions to Surrealism

• replaced the male Surrealists’ love of hallucination and erotic violence with an art of magical fantasy and narrative flow

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• moved toward laying claim to female subject positions within male-dominated movements

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• their images of the female body, conceived not as Other but as Self, anticipated a feminine poetics of the body

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• represented and celebrated the female body’'s organic, erotic, and maternal reality (that would fully emerge only with the Feminist movement of the 1970’s)