Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation /

Mirror images : women, surrealism, and self-representation / edited by Whitney Chadwick ; essays by Dawn Ades [and others]. - xiii, 191 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm

"Issued on the occasion of the exhibition organized by and premiering at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and traveling subsequently to the Miami Art Museum and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index.

An infinite play of empty mirrors : women, surrealism, and self-representation / Whitney Chadwick -- "Vous pour moi?" : Marcel Duchamp and transgender coupling / Dickran Tashjian -- In or out of the picture : Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Katy Kline -- Frida Kahlo : the self as an end / Salomon Grimberg -- Orbits of the savage moon ; surrealism and the representation of the female subject in Mexico and postwar Paris / Dawn Ades -- Dialogue and double allegiance : some contemporary women artists and the historical avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The self and the world : negotiating boundaries in the art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta, and Francesca Woodman / Helaine Posner.

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Women artists--Psychology
Self-perception in women
Self-portraits
Surrealism

N8354. / M57 1998

704.042

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