I’M PARTICULARLY FOND of the women artists associated with early Surrealism, and spent a lot of time digging up references to Leonor Fini and Toyen. (I’ve pruned away most of the briefer and more obscure entries relating to them, though some of these may still seem sufficiently brief or obscure.) In addition to sections on Fini and Toyen, I’ve separated out works on Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning. Rest assured that there are many more books and articles on these artists than I list here, and that in general the women associated with Surrealism make for fascinating reading.
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Background and Various Artists
Ades, Dawn. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978.
Billeter, Erika, and José Pierre, eds. La Femme et le Surrealisme. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 1987.
Breton, André. Surrealism and Painting. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor. MacDonald & Co., London, 1972.
Calas, Nicolas. “Meret Oppenheim: Confrontations,” Artforum 16, no. 10 (Summer 1978), 24–5.
Chadwick, Whitney. “Eros or Thanatos—The Surrealist Cult of Love Reexamined,” Artforum 14, no. 3 (November 1975), 46–56.
________. “The Muse as Artist: Women in the Surrealist Movement,” Art in America 73 (July 1985), 120–9.
________. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Thames & Hudson Inc., New York, 1985.
La Femme surréaliste: Obliques 14–15 (1977).
Gauthier, Xaviere. Surrealisme et Sexualite. Gallimard, Paris, 1971.
Hubert, Renée Riese. “Surrealist Women Painters, Feminist Portraits,” Dada/Surrealism 13 (1984), 70–82.
Hubert, R.R. “Le role du couple dans la peinture surrealiste,” Melusine no. 11 (1990), 249–60.
Kaplan, Janet A. Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo. Abbeville Press, New York, 1988.
Kuenzli, Rudolf E., and Mary Ann Caws, eds. Dada/Surrealism 18 (1990).
Margerie, Anne de. Valentine Hugo—1887–1968. Galerie de Varenne, Varenne, 1983.
Orenstein, Gloria. “Women of Surrealism,” Feminist Art Journal 2, no. 2 (Spring 1973) 1, 15–21.
Stich, Sidra, et al. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. University Art Museum, Berkeley, & Abbeville Press, New York, 1990.
Leonora Carrington
Chadwick, Whitney. “Leonora Carrington: Evolution of a Feminist Consciousness,” Woman’s Art Journal 7, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1986), 37–42.
Helland, Janice. “Surrealism and Esoteric Feminism in the Paintings of Leonora Carrington,” RACAR 16, no. 1 (1989) 53–61.
Leonor Fini
Audiberti, Jacques, et al. Leonor Fini. Editions Hervas, Paris, 1981.
Borgue, Pierre, and Jean Burgos. Leonor Fini ou le théâtre de l’imaginaire. Lettres Modernes, Paris, 1983.
Comune di Ferrara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna. Leonor Fini. Comune di Ferrara, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Ferrara, 1983.
Gaggi, Silvio. “Leonor Fini: A Mythology of the Feminine,” Art International 23 (September 1979), 34–8, 49.
Galerie Isy Brachot. Retrospective Leonor Fini. Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1970.
Guibbert, Jean-Paul. Léonor Fini graphique. Editions Clarefontaine, Lausanne, 1971.
Jelenski, Constantin. Leonor Fini. La Guilde du Livre et Clairefontaine, Lausanne, 1972.
Lauter, Estella. “Leonor Fini: Preparing to Meet the Strangers of the New World,” Woman’s Art Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), 44–49.
Musée de Luxembourg. Leonor Fini. Paris, 1986.
Réage, Pauline. Histoire d’O. Illustrated by Leonor Fini.
Styles-McLeod, Catherine. “Architectural Digest Visits: Leonor Fini,” Architectural Digest 43 (March 1986), 156–163, 210.
Webb, Peter. “Leonor Fini retrospective,” The Burlington Magazine 128, no. 1002 (September 1986), 699–700.
Winter, Nina. “Leonor Fini,” in Interview With the Muse: Remarkable Women Speak on Creativity and Power. Moon Books, Berkeley, 1979, 48–59.
Zukerman, Neil P. “Leonor Fini: The Fine Artist As Illustrator,” AB Bookman’s Weekly (October 12, 1987), 1378–1382.
Frida Kahlo
Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. Harper & Row, New York, 1983.
Lowe, Sarah M. Frida Kahlo. Universe Publishing, New York, 1991.
Dorothea Tanning
Gruen, John. “Among the Sacred Monsters: Dorothea Tanning Remembers Her Days in the Company of the French Surrealists,” Art News 87, no. 3 (March 1988), 178–82.
Lumbard, Paula. “Dorothea Tanning: On the Threshold to a Darker Place,” Woman’s Art Journal 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1981), 49–52.
Toyen
Bischof, Rita. Toyen: Das malerische Werk. Neue Kritik, Frankfurt am Main, 1987.
Breton, André, Jindrich Heisler, and Benjamin Péret. Toyen. Éditions Sokolova, Paris, 1953.
Centre Georges Pompidou. Štyrský, Toyen, Heisler. Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, 1982.
Chadwick, Whitney. “Toyen: Toward a Revolutionary Art in Prague and Paris,” Symposium 42, no. 4 (Winter 1989), 277–295.
Holten, Ragnar von. Toyen: en surrealistik visionär. Lindfors Förlag, Köping, Sweden, 1984.
Ivsic, Radovan. Toyen. Editions Filipacchi, Paris, 1974.
Mukarovský, Jan. “Toyen za války,” Promeny 18, no. 2 (1981), 15–18.
Museum of Modern Art. Devetsil: The Czech Avant-Garde of the 1920s and 30s. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1990.
Nezval, Vitezslav. “Styrsky. Toyen,” Cahiers d’Art 10, no. 5–6 (1935), 135.
Nezval, Vitezslav, and Karel Teige. Štyrský a Toyen. Fr. Borový, Prague, 1938.
La Peinture surréaliste et imaginative en Tchécoslovaquie 1930–1960. Galerie 1900–200, Paris, 1983.
Robinson, Joan Seeman. “Czech Modernism: 1900–1945,” Artforum 28, no. 8 (March 1990), 180–1.
Seifert, Jaroslav. Všecky krásy sveta. Edice vzpomínky a korespondence ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Prague, 1982.
Šmejkal, František. “Surrealismus a ceské umení,” Umení 37, no. 5 (1989), 377–399.
________. Surrealist Drawings. Trans. Till Gottheiner. Octopus Books Ltd, London, 1974.
Veltruský, Jiri. “Toyen—biografická poznámka,” Promeny 18, no. 2 (1981), 13–14.
________. “Základní rysy malírského díla Toyen,” Promeny 18, no. 4 (1981), 79–87.
Vlcek, Tomáš. “Art Between Social Crisis and Utopia: the Czech Contribution to the Development of the Avant-Garde Movement in East-Central Europe, 1910–30,” Art Journal 49, no. 1 (Spring 1990), 28–35.
Wendelberger, Grit. “Rätsel und Phantome,” Bildende Kunst 37 (May 1989), 31–2.
Zimiles, Leontine. “In Search of Toyen,” Crosscurrents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture (1983), 381–387.
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