Authors: Ilene Susan Fort i Tere Arcq uz doprinos Dawn Ades, Maria Elena Buszek, Whitney Chadwick, Rita Eder, Terri Geis, Salomon Grimberg and Gloria Feman Orenstein Publisher: Prestel publishing Date: 2012 Hardbound only 12 x 10 x 1-1/4 inches, 256 pages More than 250 color illustrations

By Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq with contributions by Dawn Ades, Maria Elena Buszek, Whitney Chadwick, Rita Eder, Terri Geis, Salomon Grimberg and Gloria Feman Orenstein
This book is available in English, Spanish, and French.

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Accompanying a major exhibition at LACMA, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the surrealist movement. This movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Conversely, the female artists of the movement delved primarily into their own subconscious and dreams.

This volume features the work of 48 Mexican and U.S.-based women artists - Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo are represented, along with lesser known or newly discovered practitioners, including Maya Deren, Helen Lundeberg, María Izquierdo, Jacqueline Lamba, and Janet Sobel. Their contributions to the surrealist movement span more than four decades and their work was both influential and radical in its own right. Thematically arranged, the book includes more than 250 full-color images along with several essays exploring the effects of geography and gender on the movement. It illustrates surrealism as a gateway to self-discovery, especially in North America, where women artists were freed from oppressive European traditions and the vagaries of war.

From 1931, the year of Lee Miller's first surreal photograph, to 1968, when Yayoi Kusama presented her landmark happening "Alice in Wonderland" in New York's Central Park, the artists and works depicted here are both significant and extraordinary in their explorations of personal and universal truths.