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May 16, 2012
The latest issue of Surrealism and the Americas is a special issue on Women in the Surrealist Conversation. Katherine Conley, the editor, says that the proliferation of academic research means that it is not possible for critics to claim that women did not play a significant role in the surrealist conversation.
By the latter Conley means:
the launch, exchange and constant adjustment and reformulation of circulating ideas , images, metaphors, and jokes typical of a group conversation conducted in a cafe or over a dinner table or a banquet ... Women had a place at the table and their work in art and writing reflects their visible presence in the intellectual economy of Surrealism .... The voices, paintings drawings, poems, writings, sculptures, photographs, essays, dances and films by women only consolidated what had always been a movement rooted in intimacy, of the self with the self as well as with others.
This edition of the journal shows how women in the Americas contributed to the Surrealist conversation through their responses, interventions, and appropriations of the questions that concerned the core group as it migrated from France to Spain, New York, Connecticut and Mexico.
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