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On January 15, 1943, the New York Sun’s chief art critic, Henry McBride, explained precisely why it was women “excelled” at surrealism: Surrealism is about 70 percent hysterics, 20 percent literature, and 5 percent good painting, and 5 percent is just saying ‘boo’ to the innocent public. There are, as we all know, plenty of men among the New York neurotics but we also know that there are still more women among them.” For a more nuanced look at the work of women surrealist artists, read on at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

On January 15, 1943, the New York Sun’s chief art critic, Henry McBride, explained precisely why it was women “excelled” at surrealism:

Surrealism is about 70 percent hysterics, 20 percent literature, and 5 percent good painting, and 5 percent is just saying ‘boo’ to the innocent public. There are, as we all know, plenty of men among the New York neurotics but we also know that there are still more women among them.”

For a more nuanced look at the work of women surrealist artists, read on at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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    Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942. lareviewofbooks:
  2. y-si-adelita said: but of course, McBride never attempts to go further and perhaps also make a critique of the root of hysteria…
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