{"id":2101,"date":"2009-10-27T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/angels-of-anarchy\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:43:41","slug":"angels-of-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/27\/angels-of-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Of Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Prospect Magazine<\/a><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Still crazy after all these years<\/h1>\n

HERMIONE EYRE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The first major international exhibition of surrealist art by women in more than 60 years opens in Manchester. It was worth the wait<\/p>\n

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Above: Dora Maar,\u00a0<\/em>Sans Titre, 1934, photomontage\u2013a woman famous as Picasso\u2019s muse, but not as an artist in her own right<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism26th September to 10th January 2010, Manchester Art Gallery<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Women are often the subjects of surrealist art: dismembered, deliquescent, with doors in their stomachs, breasts for eyes and so forth. More elusive, however, are women as proponents of surrealist art. Lee Miller and Frida Kahlo are the star names; general surveys of the movement also tend to include a few individual works by women\u2013Meret Oppenheim\u2019s Object (a teacup, saucer and spoon covered in fur, 1936), Leonora Carrington\u2019s shock-haired Self-Portrait (1938) with rocking horse and Eileen Agar\u2019s sculpture of a scarf-shrouded head, Angel of Anarchy (1936-40). But, as a new exhibition in Manchester shows, there are many more heroines of surrealism who have been sidelined from the canon.<\/p>\n

The alpha males of surrealism are among the best-known names in 20th-century art: Andr\u00e9 Breton, Salvador Dal\u00ed, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Mir\u00f3. So why haven\u2019t we heard of Emmy Bridgewater, whose influence on the British movement was\u2014according to the French critic Michel Remy\u2014as powerful as Dal\u00ed\u2019s in France? Search for her name in the British Library and there is only one return, a flimsy exhibition catalogue. And why haven\u2019t we heard of the devoted lesbian stepsisters of Jersey, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore? They fought the Nazi occupation of the island with a campaign of subversive propaganda, some of it in rhyme. Yet instead of getting the Hollywood biopic they clearly deserve, they tend to be discussed only in journals of gender studies.<\/p>\n

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from Prospect Magazine Still crazy after all these years HERMIONE EYRE The first major international exhibition of surrealist art by women in more than 60 years opens in Manchester. It was worth the wait Above: Dora Maar,\u00a0Sans Titre, 1934, photomontage\u2013a woman famous as Picasso\u2019s muse, but not as an artist in her own right Angels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}