Monday 3 January 2011

1925-1985 Women of the Avant Garde

Eileen Agar.  Claude Cahun. Leonora Carrington.  Suzanne Césaire.  LiseDeharme.  Marcelle Ferry. Léonor Fini. Valentine Hugo. Frida Kahlo. Nelly Kaplan. Mariam van Hirtum. Jacqueline Lamba.  Mary Low.  Dora Maar.  Lee Miller.  Nora Mitrani. Joyce Mansour. Meret Oppenheim,  Mimi Parent. Valentine Penrose.  Kay Sage.  Toyen. Remedios Varo. Unica Zürn.  Bonna.  Emmy Bridgwater.  Hannah Höch.  Annie Lebrun. Gisèle Prassinos. Alice Rahon. Edith Rimmington. Dorothea Tanning. 

This list interests me for several reasons. One, it contains many names of artists I do not know... not surprising, but also it has omitted several important ones that should be included.

I shall explore the ones I do not know first on these pages e.g. Edith Rimmington, Nora Mitrani, Marcelle Ferry... Kati Horna is an omission as is Ilse Weber.

I found it through a book on this period and women's art.