Surrealism
context: gender issues
- women important to the Surrealists as muses & lovers
- inherited late 19C view polarized view:
- embraced both creative & subversive powers of the love instinct
- rejected popular image of women during 1920s as an independent, often androgynous, being who fled stifling domesticity of late Victorian culture
- Breton
- Freud’s erotic desire & “pleasure principle”
- Sade’s revolutionary eroticism
- reintegration of male & female principles