SURREALISM AND WOMEN
Keywords:
avant-garde, surrealism, André Breton, feminine principleAbstract
Surrealism, as one of the most famous intellectual movements in history, is considered the most comprehensive
aesthetic revolution of the 20th century, on the one hand, but on the other, it is also a sexist movement, since there is
not a single woman in the group around André Breton.
In the context of the avant-garde, surrealism is probably the only movement in the post-romantic era that glorifies
the feminine principle, but only as an instigator of “male” creativity. On the other hand, there is no other movement
with so many active women artists (in painting), which is not the case with the literary context, where their absence
is noticeable.
The question of surrealism and women, however controversial, is very important; it is one of the key questions that,
even after a hundred years, surrealism is still relevant, stimulating, provocative...
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