Valentine Penrose
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
9781350437067 (ISBN)
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Artist, poet, traveller and 20th-century surrealist visionary, Valentine Penrose was highly regarded as a poet and artist during her lifetime, but is yet to receive the critical attention given to her surrealist peers. Bringing to life the artist in her own right, this is the first English-language book dedicated to Penrose’s genre-defying oeuvre and its poetic quest to understand the shifting world of the 20th century from multiple perspectives.
This volume explores Penrose's accomplished visual and literary work, relating it to her creative, often unconventional, philosophical ideas. It shows how her work emerged from encounters with global cultures and political issues: she travelled widely (frequently solo) through India, the Canary Islands, Africa, and across Europe - protesting against the Spanish Civil War, driving British soldiers during the London Blitz, and enlisting as a soldier in the Free French Army during the Algerian War. The contributors highlight a range of unique motifs throughout Penrose’s work, covering ecology, spiritualism, folklore, mythology, lesbianism, the Gothic, the occult, and life during war. Reflecting on Penrose’s practice during a time of immense global change, the chapters provide insight into the bold practice of a female artist working against patriarchal, heteronormative, and capitalist power structures.
Bringing these unpublished archival materials as well as Penrose’s published works into dialogue with works by better-known artists such as Eileen Agar and Alice Rahon, the volume offers new and creative ways of thinking through feminism, female collaboration, and queerness in surrealism. Introducing a dynamic personality to the modernist canon, it will be a vital addition to studies on British, French, and non-Western surrealisms, and to scholarship on female surrealism.
Felicity Gee is Senior Lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter, UK, and President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS).
List of Illustrations
Preface, Antony Penrose (Lee Miller Archives, Farley Farm, Sussex, UK)
Introduction: ‘The World Itself Stretches’: Valentine Penrose’s Creative Life, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
1: Framing the Voyage: Valentine Penrose and Translating Cultures, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
2: In the Archive: Valentine Penrose and Mysticism, Fiona Menzies (Archivist, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)
3: Architectural Constructs in the Work of Valentine Penrose, Karen L. Humphreys (Trinity College, Connecticut, USA)
4: Valentine Penrose, the Dark Star of Surrealism, María Ángeles Aléman Gómez (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
5: Fleeing the Heterosexual Norm: Gothic Tropes and Illicit Lesbianism in Martha’s Opera (1946), Beth Kearney (University of New England, USA)
6: Sapphic Surrealism: Valentine Penrose’s Dons des féminines, Rachel Silveri (Assistant Professor, University of Florida, USA)
7: Hybridizations and Metamorphoses in Valentine Penrose’s Collages, Caterina Caputo (University of Florence, Italy)
8: The Bloody Countess: Blood Ritual, Herbal Lore and Wicked Women in the Work of Valentine Penrose, Tor Scott (University of Edinburgh, UK)
9: Valentine Penrose’s Writings on War: Hope, Experiment, and History, Felicity Gee (University of Exeter, UK)
Coda: Words and works by Penny Slinger, Maria Lusitano, and others.
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.10.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Transnational Surrealism |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781350437067 / 9781350437067 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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