Whitney Chadwick, author of The Militant Muse, was one of the first feminist critics to call our attention to the valuable work created by the women at the margins of the group – the wives, friends and associates of Breton and co who made art every bit as daring and revolutionary. The surrealists exalted women, without ever truly seeing them. “There they are, the surrealist women so shot and painted.” Surrealist artists, photographers and writers such as Hans Bellmer, Man Ray and André Breton famously turned women into their muses, and took them apart in life and on the page. Often armless too and always unarmed,” writes the scholar and translator Mary Ann Caws. Here a disembodied leg, there a mysterious eye. T o look at surrealist art is to see female bodies in pieces.
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