Mary Ann Caws Boeken

An anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963). It includes a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay setting the context for the poem.

Exploring the origins of the prose poem, this anthology features foundational works by iconic figures like William Blake and Charles Baudelaire, alongside lesser-known writers such as Judith Gautier and Elena Guro. It highlights the genre's unique embrace of hybridity across aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions. The collection, edited by Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville, is essential for those interested in modern poetics and literary innovation, showcasing contributions from over 20 translators worldwide.

A text of surrealism. It includes an essay on Eluard's works.

Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and died a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Her first husband was the artist Wolfgang Paalen, among her lovers were Pablo Picasso and the poet Valentine Penrose, and over the years her circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Joan Miró, Paul Éluard, Man Ray, and Anaïs Nin. This bilingual edition of Rahon’s poems confirms the achievement of this little-known but visionary writer who defies categorization. Her spellbinding poems, inspired by prehistoric art, lost love, and travels around the globe, weave together dream, fantasy, and madness. For the first time in any language, this book gathers the three collections of poetry Rahon published in her lifetime, along with uncollected and unpublished poems and an album of portraits, manuscript pages, and artworks.

A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century's longest lasting art movement.

A biography of the flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde Mina Loy.

The memoir explores the author's journey from a southern girl to a renowned writer and critic, highlighting her complex family dynamics. Mary Ann Caws reflects on her relationships with her sister, parents, and her grandmother, a painter who inspired her to embrace a life of passionate engagement. Through these personal narratives, the book reveals themes of identity, creativity, and the influence of familial bonds on one's artistic development.

Provides a fresh, engaging view into Picasso's life and art. The author describes the artist's life thematically and chronologically, and also takes as focal points Picasso's relationships with his close friends as they changed over the years. She also examines Picasso's juggling of viewpoints, artistic strategies, loves and friends.

"She was to be Picasso's lover and muse for seven years. In that time she photographed him at work and play, in the studio and on the beach, alone or with friends such as Man Ray, Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba and Paul Eluard. In early 1957 she created a unique photographic record of the painting of Guernica, Picasso's searing protest against the carnage of the Spanish Civil War. Dora's own features were immortalized in the lamp-bearing woman in Guernica and in the harrowing distortions of the Weeping Woman, the image in which Picasso achieved his most acute expression of the public and private anguish of those years.".