{"product_id":"women-artists-and-the-surrealist-movement","title":"Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir 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. Whitney Chadwick, author of the highly acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen, Art, and Society\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, interviewed and corresponded with most of the artists themselves in the course of her research. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen Artists and the Surrealist Movement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, now revised with a new foreword by art historian Dawn Ades, contains a wealth of extracts from unpublished writings and numerous illustrations never before reproduced. Since this book was first published, it has acquired the undeniable status of a classic among artists, art historians, critics, and cultural historians. It has inspired and necessitated a revision of the story of the Surrealist movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e320 Pages\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45794400469153,"sku":"9780500296165","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/4977\/3729\/files\/e2ef6ba59abc76d664c3c598ee9489bc38e671ee1d4ea44c5f26ab7dbb8408de.jpg?v=1772839593","url":"https:\/\/shop.denverartmuseum.org\/products\/women-artists-and-the-surrealist-movement","provider":"The Shops at the Denver Art Museum ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}