It has inspired and necessitated a revision of the story of the Surrealist movement.

Since this book was first published, it has acquired the undeniable status of a classic among artists, art historians, critics, and cultural historians. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, now revised with a new foreword by art historian Dawn Ades, contains a wealth of extracts from unpublished writings and numerous illustrations never before reproduced. Whitney Chadwick, author of the highly acclaimed Women, Art, and Society, interviewed and corresponded with most of the artists themselves in the course of her research. Love, War and the Women of Surrealism Whitney Chadwick Buy £19. Their stories and achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own “liberation of the spirit” in the context of the Surrealist revolution. past thirty years, however, the work of women Surrealists has rarely been shown in the United States. 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.

This vivid account, now in paperback, includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller. A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick’s seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, art historian Whitney Chadwick charts the lives of five female surrealistsconnecting their experiences with art, friendship, and war.

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