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title:Women As Mythmakers : Poetry and Visual Art By Twentieth-century Women
author:Lauter, Estella.
publisher:Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin:0253203252
print isbn13:9780253203250
ebook isbn13:9780585000909
language:English
subjectFeminism and the arts, Women artists, Women poets, Art and mythology, Arts, Modern--20th century.
publication date:1984
lcc:NX180.F4L38 1984eb
ddc:700/.88042
subject:Feminism and the arts, Women artists, Women poets, Art and mythology, Arts, Modern--20th century.
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Women as
Mythmakers
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The Ideal Life La vie idale Lonor Fini 1950 oil 36-l8 X 25-58 - photo 2
The Ideal Life (La vie idale), Lonor Fini, 1950, oil, 36-l/8" X 25-5/8". Courtesy of Lonor Fini.
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Women as Mythmakers
Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women
Estella Lauter
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bloomington
Page iv

To My Family
Judson and Edna Loomis
Chuck, Kristin, and Nicholas Lauter
and to the members of our extended family

Copyright 1984 by Estella Lauter

All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Lauter, Estella, 1940
Women as mythmakers.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
I. Feminism and the arts. 2. Women artists.
3. Art and mythology. I. Title.
NX180.FL38 1984 700'.88042 83-48636
ISBN 0-253-36606-2
ISBN 0-253-20325-2 (pbk.)
3 4 5 6 7 96 95 94 93 92

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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
INTRODUCTION: Steps toward a Feminist Archetypal Theory of Mythmaking
1
Part One: Individual Visions
CHAPTER 1
Anne Sexton's Radical Discontent
23
CHAPTER 2
Ktthe Kollwitz: The Power of the Mother (with Dominique Rozenberg)
47
CHAPTER 3
Margaret Atwood: Remythologizing Circe
62
CHAPTER 4
Remedios Varo: The Creative Woman and the Female Quest
79
CHAPTER 5
Diane Wakoski: Disentangling the Woman from the Moon
98
CHAPTER 6
Lonor Fini: Re-envisioning La Belle Dame sans Merci
114
Part Two: Collective Visions
CHAPTER 7
Mythic Patterns in Contemporary Visual Art by Women
131
CHAPTER 8
"Woman and Nature" Revisited in Poetry by Women
172
CONCLUSION
The Light Is in Us
203
Notes
225
Bibliography
247
Index
261

Page vi

Illustrations
Frontispiece
Lonor Fini
The Ideal Life
Plate 1
Kthe Kollwitz
Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground
51
Plate 2
Kthe Kollwitz
Tower of Mothers
54
Plate 3
Kthe Kollwitz
Death with a Woman
60
Plate 4
Remedios Varo
Solar Music
82
Plate 5
Remedios Varo
The Creation of the Birds
85
Plate 6
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