Three Women Surrealists: Carrington, Tanning, Kahlo

The Parisian Surrealists between the First and Second World Wars were notoriously patronizing to women artists, putting them on pedestals and treating them as muses but not taking them seriously as artists. This presentation will examine these formerly marginalized women and re-evaluate their place in the development of modernist art in the twentieth century.

Presented by:  Dr. Dennis Raverty is an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University where he teaches 19th and 20th-century art history, the art of West Africa, the diaspora and African American art, as well as the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe. An award-winning teacher, Raverty lives in New York City, and is currently co-authoring a book on American illustration with Dennis Dittrich, former president of the Society of Illustrators.