<em>A Nice Family </em>
Poem
Gisele Prassinos
Paris Review
1977
Ellen Nations, translator
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate. One Second before Awakening
By Salvador Dali
Example of typical portrayals of idealized women by male surrealists.
Salvador Dali
<a title="Dali Painting" href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/salvador-dali/dream-caused-by-the-flight-of-a-bee-around-a-pomegranate-one-second-before-awakening" target="_blank">Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain</a>
1944
<a title="Le Festin" href="http://www.andrebreton.fr/fr/item/?GCOI=56600100328930#" target="_blank">Photograph</a> of "Le Festin" or "Cannibal Feast" by Meret Oppenheim
"Le Festin" or "Cannibal Feast" by Meret Oppenheim
Oppenheim used a female model's nude body as a table to serve a meal at the 1959 International Surrealist Exposition.
Meret Oppenheim
[Expositions] 1959-1960, [E.R.O.S.] Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme
Galerie Daniel Cordier
1959-1960
William Klein, photographer
© William Klein, SAIF, 2005.
30,5 x 40 cm (12 x 15 3/4 in.) - Tirage argentique sur papier
Night Work is about to Commence by Emmy Bridgwater
Painting by British, female surrealist Emmy Bridgwater
Emmy Bridgwater
<a title="Birmingham Museums Trust" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/night-work-is-about-to-commence-34084" target="_blank">Birmingham Museums Trust</a>
1940–1943
© the artist's estate
Oil on board, 46 x 61 cm
Cover Illustration for Harper's Bazaar by Leonor Fini
Example of the collaboration between the surrealists and fashion More examples can be found in <a title="Vogue and Surrealism" href="http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/obsession-of-the-day/2012/02/surrealism-steven-meisel#ad-image160403" target="_blank">this article by Vogue.</a>
Leonor Fini
Haper's Bazaar
1947
<a title="Pere Ubu" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/286239" target="_blank">Pere Ubu</a>
Photograph by Dora Maar
"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 of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (1896). Maar's imaginative evocation of the pear-shaped, breast-plated Ubu in the monstrous reality of a baby armadillo is one of the most compelling and repellent of Surrealist photographs." - From image website
Dora Maar
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1936
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
<a title="Surrealisme et Sexualite" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zKz0yBZzL._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" target="_blank">Surréalisme et Sexualité</a> by Xavière Gauthier
A feminist critique of the mystification of women by the surrealist movement.
Influenced by SImone de Beauvoir, Gauthier analyses how the female body is used as a muse and as an erotic image in surrealist art.
Xavière Gauthier
Can be found in the <a title="Gauthier in Encore" href="http://encore.unco.edu/iii/encore/search/C__SSurr%C3%A9alisme%20et%20sexualit%C3%A9__Orightresult__U1?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">UNC library</a>!
Gallimard
1971
French
Androgyny, Interview with Meret Oppenheim
An interview with surrealist Meret Oppenheim
The author and Oppenheim discuss her views on the role of dreams and women in the Surrealist movement.
Robert J. Belton
Dada/Surrealism
No. 18 Surrealism and Women
The University of Iowa
1990
English
Journal