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Poem

Example of typical portrayals of idealized women by male surrealists.

Oppenheim used a female model's nude body as a table to serve a meal at the 1959 International Surrealist Exposition.

Painting by British, female surrealist Emmy Bridgwater

Example of the collaboration between the surrealists and fashion More examples can be found in this article by Vogue.

"The Surrealist artist Dora Maar is better known as Picasso's dark-haired model and companion in the late 1930s than for her astonishing works. Her incarnation of the bestial nature of man is titled after the infamous and absurd dictatorial antihero…

Influenced by SImone de Beauvoir, Gauthier analyses how the female body is used as a muse and as an erotic image in surrealist art.

The author and Oppenheim discuss her views on the role of dreams and women in the Surrealist movement.