IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY  Hassold Term I, 2008-2009

UNIT 4: THE FEMME ENFANT: UNTHREATENING OTHERNESS: INNOCENCE VANQUISHED, CHILDHOOD  EXPLOITED, and DREAM IMAGES OF THE HYSTERIC

Balthus
Jules Pascin
Hans Bellmer
Richard Lindner
Max Ernst

Required Reading:

Max Ernst, A Little Girl Dreams of The Taking Veil 1930, George Braziller, Inc., New York, English translation 1982 by Dorothea Tanning [see slide list]

Evans, Martha Noel. "Cixous, Helene The Hysteric," 157-184 in Masks of Tradition: Women and the Politics of Writing in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PQ 149 .E83 1978]

Suggested Reading:

Steinberg, Leo, (1955/1972) "Pascin," 268-271, in Other Criteria London: Oxford UP, 1972. NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 6490 .S74 1975]

Charlotte Stokes, "Surrealist as Religious Visionary: Max Ernst's Reve d'une petite fille gui voulut entrer au Carmel (1930), in Papers on the Fantastic #5, 167-181.
[XEROX COPY ON RESERVE IN LIBRARY]

Suggested Readings: DREAMS

** Sigmund Freud, (1916) Lecture X, "Symbolism in Dreams," 149-169. Vol 15, The Complete Works. [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF/ 173/ F6253/ v. 15]

Sigmund Freud, (1900) Chapter 4, "Distortion in Dreams," 134-162, VoL 4 The Complete Works [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF/ 173/ F6253/ v. 4]

SUGGESTED READINGS: MAX ERNST

John Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, n.d., Chapter 12, "The Major Books," 182-202.
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N6888 .E7 R83 196b]

Renee Riese Hurbert, "The Fabulous Fiction of Two Surrealist Artists: Georgio de Chirico and Max Ernst,,, (1972), 151-166.   New Literary History 4, 1972.
[NEW COLLEGE PERIODICALS: PR/ 1/ N44]

SLIDE LIST

Jules Pascin    FEMININE EXHAUSTION

1910     THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL
1925     NUDE WITH THE GREEN HAT
1926     STANDING NUDE
1928     SLEEPING NUDE
1929     SEATED GIRL WITH FLOWERS
1930     SALOME
1930     THREE NUDES
             SEATED WOMEN

Balthus ADOLESCENT GIRLS

1944-49     GOLDEN DAYS
1949           NUDE PLAYING WITH A CAT
19524         THE ROOM
1963-6        THE TURKISH ROOM
1973-7        NUDE IN PROFILE
1977           NUDE RESTING
1980-1       THE PAINTER AND HIS MODEL: Detail

Hans Bellmer THE GAMES OF THE DOLL

1938     THE DOLL (II)

Richard Lindner GAMES OF CHILDHOOD

1953     THE VISITOR (Drawing)
1953 ** THE VISITOR (Oil)
1953     THE MEETING: Details
1958     GIRL
1962     UNTITLED


Max Ernst APPROPRIATION OF THE CHILD'S UNCONSCIOUS

A LITTLE GIRL DREAMS OF TAKING THE VEIL (Collage Novel)

see slide tray for these illustrations