Feminist Interventions

Abstract

Women have always been significant, even foundational, figures in the histories of Dada and Surrealism. Many women artists developed and used dada and surrealist techniques, or contributed in multiple ways to the productions of the movements. Such feminist interventions can be understood on one level as dislocations in which Dada and Surrealism actually fulfill their declared potential to be truly revolutionary, and indeed to be and stay politically relevant. The spring 1973 issue of The Feminist Art Journal included Gloria Feman Orenstein's essay The Women of Surrealism. This key document is crucial to an understanding of how patriarchal criticism has responded to feminist interventions to re-evaluate Dada and Surrealism. William S. Rubin's Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage now appears as a strangely reactionary art event during a revolutionary feminist period, a time in which feminism itself was markedly prominent.

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