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Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
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Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic Hardcover - 2020

by Huebner, Karla

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Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 450 pages. 10.25x8.50x1.25 inches.
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  • Title Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
  • Author Huebner, Karla
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
  • Date 2020
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0822946475
  • ISBN 9780822946472 / 0822946475
  • Weight 3.26 lbs (1.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 8.4 x 1.3 in (24.89 x 21.34 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Surrealism - Czech Republic - Prague, Toyen - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020017001
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.2

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From the publisher

Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermnov, 1902-80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen's early life in Prague enabled her to become a force in three avant-garde groups--Devětsil, Prague surrealism, and Paris surrealism--yet, unusually for a female artist of her generation, Toyen presented both her gender and sexuality as ambiguous and often emphasized erotic themes in her work. Despite her importance and ground-breaking work, Toyen has been notoriously difficult to study. Using primary sources gathered from disparate disciplines and studies of the artist's own work, Magnetic Woman is organized both chronologically and thematically, moving through Toyen's career with attention to specific historical circumstances and intellectual developments approximately as they entered her life. Karla Huebner offers a re-evaluation of surrealism, the Central European contribution to modernism, and the role of female artists in the avant-garde, along with a complex and nuanced view of women's roles in and treatment by the surrealist movement.

About the author

Karla Huebner is associate professor of art history and affiliate faculty in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality program at Wright State University.