Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: All My Names Know Your Leap: Surrealist Women and Their Challenge
• Notes on Individuals Frequently Cited in This Anthology
• 1. The First Women Surrealists, 1924-1929
  • Introduction: The Women of La Révolution surréaliste
  • Renée Gauthier
    • Dream: I Am in a Field...
  • Simone Kahn
    • Surrealist Text: This Took Place in the Springtime...
    • The Exquisite Corpses
  • Denise Levy
    • Surrealist Text: I Went into a Green Song...
    • Surrealist Text: Ivory Blue and Shady Satin...
  • Nancy Cunard
    • Surrealist Manifestation at the Diaghilev Ballet
    • The Beginnings of the Surrealist Revolution
    • Surrealism, Ethnography, and Revolution
  • Nadja
    • The Blue Wind
  • Fanny Beznos
    • I Go, the Wind Pushing Me Along
    • Purity! Purity! Purity!
  • Suzanne Muzard
    • On Love: Reply to an Inquiry
    • My Passage in Surrealism
  • Valentine Penrose
    • When It Comes to Love: Response to an Inquiry
  • Suzanne Muzard, Elsie Houston, and Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy
    • Surrealist Games
• 2. In the Service of Revolution, 1930-1939
  • Introduction: Women and Surrealism in the Thirties
  • Claude Cabun
    • Captive Balloon
    • The Invisible Adventure
    • Poetry Keeps Its Secret
    • Surrealism and Working-Class Emancipation
    • From life I still expect that overwhelming experience
    • Beware Domestic Objects!
  • Nancy Cunard
    • How Come, White Man?
    • The Scottsboro Case
    • A Trip to Harlem
  • Simone Yoyotte
    • Pale Blue Line in a Forced Episode
    • Half-Season
  • Greta Knutson
    • Foreign Land
  • Lise Deharme
    • The Empty Cage
    • The Little Girl of the Black Forest
  • Denise Bellon, Gala Dalí, Nusch Eluard, Yolande Oliviero
    • Experimental Research: On the Irrational Knowledge of the Object: The Crystal Ball of the Seers
  • Maruja Mallo
    • Surrealism as Manifest in My Work
  • Meret Oppenheim
    • Where Is the Wagon Going?
    • If You Say the Right Word, I Can Sing...
    • Anyone That Sees Her White Fingers...
  • Jacqueline Lamba
    • A Revolutionary Approach to Life and the World
  • Gisèle Prassinos
    • Arrogant Hair
    • The Ghost of Chateaubriand
  • Toyen
    • A Community of Ethical Views
  • Alice Rahon
    • Four Poems from On the Bare Ground
    • Despair
    • Hourglass Lying Down
  • Valentine Penrose
    • There Is the Fire
    • The Datura the Serpent
    • To a Woman to a Path
  • Sheila Legge
    • I Have Done My Best For You
  • Eileen Agar
    • Am I a Surrealist?
  • Mary Low
    • Women and the Spanish Revolution
  • Marcelle Ferry
    • You Came down from the Mountains...
    • When He Went Away...
    • The One Seated on the Stones of Cheops...
    • Frenzy, Sweet Little Child, You Sleep...
  • Leonora Carrington
    • The Sand Camel
  • Grace Pailthorpe
    • What We Put in Prison
    • The Scientific Aspect of Surrealism
    • Surrealist Art
    • On the Importance of Fantasy Life
  • Hélène Vanel
    • Poetry and Dance
  • Ithell Colquhoun
    • What Do I Need to Paint a Picture?
  • Jeanne Megnen
    • The Noise Will Start Tomorrow
• 3. Neither Your War Nor Your Peace: The Surrealist International, 1940-1945
  • Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Diaspora: First Principles and New Beginnings
  • Suzanne Césaire
    • André Breton, Poet
    • Discontent of a Civilization
    • 1943: Surrealism and Us
    • The Domain of the Marvelous
  • Mary Low
    • Perchance to Dream
    • Women and Love through Private Property
  • Frida Kahlo
    • I Paint My Own Reality
    • From Her Journal
  • Lucie Thésée
    • Beautiful as...
    • The Buckets in My Head...
    • Where Will the Earth Fall?
  • Leonora Carrington
    • Down Below
  • Régine Raufast
    • Photography and Image
  • Laurence Iché
    • Scissors Strokes by the Clock...
    • I Prefer Your Uneasiness Like a Dark Lantern...
    • Unpublished Correspondence
    • The Philosophers' Stone
  • Gertrude Pape
    • The Lake
    • Eardrops from Babylon
  • Susy Hare
    • Complaint for a Sorcerer
  • Sonia Sekula
    • Womb
  • Meret Oppenheim
    • Round the World with the Rumpus God....
  • Ithell Colquhoun
    • "Everything Found on Land Is Found in the Sea"
    • Water-Stone of the Wise
  • Emmy Bridgwater
    • On the Line
    • Back to the First Bar
    • The Journey
    • The Birds
  • Edith Rimmington
    • The Growth at the Break
    • The Sea-Gull
  • Alice Rahon
    • Pointed Out Like the Stars...
    • Little Epidermis
    • Sublimated Mercury
    • The Appellants
    • Ferns in a Hollow of Absence...
    • The Sleeping Woman
  • Eva Sulzer
    • Butterfly Dreams
    • Amerindian Art
  • Jacqueline Johnson
    • The Paintings of Alice Rahon Paalen
    • The Earth
  • Ida Kar
    • I Chose Photography
  • Ikbal El Alailly
    • Introduction to Vertu de l'Allemagne [The Virtue of Germany]
• 4. Surrealism versus the Cold War, 1946-1959
  • Introduction: Regroupment and Occultation: Women in the Surrealist Underground in the 1950s
  • Thérèse Renaud
    • I Lay My Head
  • Françoise Sullivan
    • Dance and Automatism
  • Iréne Hamoir
    • Pearl
    • Aria
    • The Procession
  • Emmy Bridgwater, Ithell Colquhoun, Iréne Hamoir, and Edith Rimmington
    • Surrealist Inquiry: What Do You Hate Most?
  • Lise Deharme
    • I Didn't Know Gertrude Stein
  • Maria Martins
    • I Am the Tropical Night's High Noon
    • Art, Liberation, and Peace
  • Helen Phillips
    • The Image: Recognition of a Moment
  • Vera Hérold
    • The Big L
  • Gisèle Prassinos
    • Peppermint Tower in Praise of Greedy Little Girls
  • Ithell Colquhoun
    • The Mantic Stain: Surrealism and Automatism
  • Dorothea Tanning
    • Legend
  • Nora Mitrani
    • Scandal with a Secret Face
    • "Blacker Than Black. . ."
    • About Cats and Magnolias
    • Poetry, Freedom of Being
    • On Slaves, Suffragettes, and the Whip
    • Concupiscence and Scandal: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
  • Valentine Penrose
    • I Dream
    • Beautiful or Ugly It Doesn't Matter
  • Jacqueline Johnson
    • Taking a Sight 1951
  • Alice Rahon
    • Painter and Magician
  • Jacqueline Senard
    • Reason and Safety Factors
    • Cat=Clover
    • Polar
  • Elisa Breton
    • One in the Other
  • Elisa Breton, Anne Segbers, and Toyen
    • Surrealist Inquiry: Would You Open the Door?
  • Joyce Mansour
    • Into the Red Velvet
    • Lovely Monster
    • Practical Advice for Waiting
    • To Come, Possession, Prick Tease: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
  • Meret Oppenheim
    • Automatism at a Crossroads
    • I Have to Write Down the Black Words
  • Judit Reigl
    • Points of Departure for a New Revolt
  • Isabel Meyrelles
    • Night Words
  • Anneliese Hager
    • Of the Poison of Dreams
    • The Blue Spell
    • Automatic Dream
  • Drahomira Vandas
    • Light Throws Shadows
    • An Egg Hatches Out a Flame
    • Rain Man
  • Olga Orozco
    • Twilight (Between Dog and Wolf)
  • Blanca Varela
    • Dance Card
  • Marianne van Hirtum
    • In Those Rooms...
    • Abandon, Meeting, Orgasm, Seduce, Vice: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
  • Leonora Carrington
    • Comments on The Temptation of St. Anthony
    • On Magic Art: A Conversation, 1996
  • Kay Sage
    • Painter and Writer
    • An Observation
    • The Window
    • Chinoiserie
    • Fragrance
  • Mimi Parent
    • Depraved Person, License, Masturbation, Voyeur: Definitions from the Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism
  • Sonia Sekula
    • Notes from a Journal: The Occurrence of Meeting a Face Contra a Face
  • Remedios Varo
    • A Recipe: How to Produce Erotic Dreams
• 5. The Making of "May '68" and Its Sequels
  • Introduction: Women in the Surrealist Resurgence of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Nora Mitrani
    • In Defense of Surrealism
  • Nelly Kaplan
    • Memoirs of a Lady Sheet Diviner
    • At the Women Warriors' Table
    • Enough or Still More
    • All Creation Is Androgynous: An Interview
  • Nicole Espagnol
    • Female Socket
    • Heartstopping
    • The Conclusion Is Not Drawn
    • The Wind Turns
  • Annie Le Brun
    • Introduction to Drop Everything!
  • Giovanna
    • Where Are We in Relation to Surrealism?
    • Baking Chocolate and Dialectics
    • What Do I Know...
    • Therapy
  • Monique Charbonel
    • It's a Wonder
  • Unica Zürn
    • Lying in Ambush
  • Elisabeth Lenk
    • Surrealism: A Liberating and Catalyzing Element in Germany Today
    • Automatic Text for Anne Ethuin
  • Penelope Rosemont
    • Passage
    • Candle
    • Rising Asleep
  • Joyce Mansour
    • A Mango
    • Night in the Shape of a Bison
    • Ten to One to No
    • Wild Glee from Elsewhere
    • Absolute Divergence: The International Surrealist Exhibition, 1965-1966
  • Mimi Parent
    • Are You a Surrealist?
  • Marianne van Hirtum
    • The Future of Surrealism: Response to an Inquiry
    • While We Spend Our Lives Ironing...
    • And I Shall Be the Mouth of Copper...
    • The Naked Truth
    • Vampiro Nox
    • Surrealism: Rising Sign
  • Anne Ethuin
    • Legend
  • Isabel Meyrelles
    • I Will Tell You During the Walk...
    • Tyger, Tyger
  • Luiza Neto Jorge
    • Another Genealogy
    • "Monument to Birds" (Max Ernst)
    • Fable
    • The Force of Gravity
    • Sphericity: Ferocity
  • Alejandra Pizarnik
    • Caroline von Günderode
    • In a Copy of Les Chants de Maldoror
  • Leila Ferraz
    • Secrets of Surrealist Magic Art
    • My Love, I Speak to You of a Love
  • Rikki Ducornet
    • My Special Madness
    • Necromancy
    • Dark Star, Black Star
    • Machete
    • Clean
  • Nancy Joyce Peters
    • To the Death of Mirrors
    • General Strike
    • Nelly Kaplan's Néa: Woman and Eroticism in Film
  • Alice Farley
    • Notes toward a Surrealist Dance
  • Jayne Cortez
    • Consultation
    • Feathers
    • In the Line of Duty
    • Make Ifa
    • Say It
  • Haifa Zangana
    • Can We Disturb These Living Coffins?
    • A Symbol of Sin and Evil Thoughts: Introduction to Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi
  • Hilary Booth
    • Their Games and Ours: A Note on Time-Travelers' Potlatch
  • Hilary Booth, Nancy Joyce Peters, Penelope Rosemont, Debra Taub
    • Surrealist Games: Time-Travelers' Potlatch
  • Valentine Penrose
    • From These Husks Are Worlds Made
  • Leonora Carrington
    • What Is a Woman?
    • The Cabbage Is a Rose
  • Meret Oppenheim
    • Nobody Will Give You Freedom, You Have to Take It
• 6. Surrealism: A Challenge to the Twenty-First Century
  • Introduction: Women and Surrealism Today and Tomorrow
  • Silvia Grénier
    • Salomé
    • Signs
  • Carmen Bruna
    • Poetry: An Incitement to Revolt
    • "Lady from Shanghai"
    • Moi-Même (Myself)
  • Eva Svankmajerová
    • Emancipation Cycle
    • Tactile Lids
    • Stunned by Freedom
    • I Don't Know Exactly
  • Alena Nádvorn'ková
    • Emila Medková's Photographs and the Anthropomorphization of Detail
    • Determination of Time
    • Art History (Sandro Botticelli)
  • Ivana Ciglinová
    • The Old Crow's Story
  • Mary Low
    • The Companion
    • Q.E.D.
    • Where the Wolf Sings
    • Encounter
  • Hilary Booth
    • Long Hot Summer: Great Black Music Today
    • Preface to I Am Rain
    • Our Skin Is Paper
    • Poem for Central America
  • Marie-Dominique Massoni
    • Two Seconds
    • How Old Is the Old Mole?
  • Haifa Zangana
    • What Choice?
  • Jayne Cortez
    • When I Look at Wifredo Lam's Paintings
    • Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama
    • Sacred Trees
  • Penelope Rosemont
    • Life and Times of the Golden Goose
    • The Bad Days Will End
    • Revolution by Chance
  • Rikki Ducornet
    • The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi
    • Manifesto in Voices
  • Alice Farley
    • Permutations of Desire
    • Costumes: Vehicles of Transformation
    • Gesture
  • Irene Plazewska
    • Newton's Descent
  • Debra Taub
    • A Dance in the Forest
    • Exquisite Alchemy
    • Secret Melodies
  • Gina Litherland
    • Imagination and Wilderness
  • Ivanir de Oliveira
    • Collage: Image of Revelation
  • Nicole E. Reiss
    • Divagations
    • A Delirious Voyage inside a Circle
  • Elaine Parra
    • To Radicalize with Beauty and Love
  • Sarah Metcalf
    • A Game of Slight Disturbances
  • Katerina Pinosová
    • The Piece of Bone
  • Lenka Valacbová
    • The Sterile Dish
  • Kajsa Bergh
    • Desire
  • Petra Mandal
    • First-Hand Knowledge
  • Nancy Joyce Peters
    • Women and Surrealism
• Bibliography
• Index

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About the Author

Affiliated with the Surrealist Group in Paris in the 1960s, Penelope Rosemont is a Chicago poet and painter.

Reviews

"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written... It should become a standard text of surrealism." Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University