Drams, Myths, and Desire: The World of Dreams in the Work of Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo

For the Surrealists, dreams are both expressions of desire and the place where our spirits achieve the highest degree of freedom. André Breton celebrated the imaginative power of dreams and described women as beacons of chthonic conscience. Female Surrealist artists overturned this male-centered interpretation, which saw them cast as the object of dreams and desire, by revealing the dreamworld’s complex secret and symbolic nature.

Giulia Ingarao lectures in Contemporary Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo. She specialized in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her main areas of interest and research are Surrealism, gender studies and post-World War II Italian art. She is the author of Leonora Carrington. Un viaggio nel Novecento. Dal sogno surrealista alla magia del Messico (2014, 2022).

• The webinar is in Italian and takes place remotely on Zoom.
• Participation is free.
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