Dorothea Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 1943
- Friday, June 7, 2019
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
This First Friday Lecture will discuss surrealist women artists, including Meret Oppenheim and Dorothea Tanning, and others such as Lucita Hurtado Mullican and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon who Rabinovitch interviewed in oral histories taken in 2009. All felt strongly about themselves as artists and contested the accepted role of women in surrealism. Their words create a new frame of reference for surrealism and uncover issues in the social history and the politics of the art world.
Free, everyone welcome!
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Celia Rabinovitch (Ph.D. McGill University; MFA, Painting, University of Wisconsin) is an artist, writer and professor. Her book, Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art, uncovers the struggle between sacred and secular forces in art, from prehistory to the surrealist movement. Rabinovitch has two new books and a museum exhibition forthcoming 2019-2021. She integrates art with history, cultural anthropology and religion. As an artist, her work has been exhibited throughout Canada, the USA and Europe, and currently is being shown at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York City.