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Eileen Agar : angel of anarchy / editors: Laura Smith and Grace Storey ; [text by] Laura Smith, Marina Warner, Daisey Lafarge, Grace Storey, Andrew Lambirth, Daisey Lafarge.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2021.Description: 268 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780854882922
  • 0854882928
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Contents:
Introduction / Iwona Blazwick -- Eileen Agar : angel of anarchy / Laura Smith -- Aurora's Hands / Eileen Agar -- The natural fantastic of Eileen Agar / Marina Warner -- Plates -- Alukah (horse-leech) pantoum for Agar / Daisy Lafarge -- Eileen Agar and photography / Grace Storey -- Eileen Agar and collage / Andrew Lambirth -- A journey through the eye / Eileen Agar.
Summary: Eileen Aigar (b.1899 Buenos Aires; d.1991 London) is an often overlooked but crucial figure within the development of European twentieth-century culture. Throughout her 80-year career she synthesised elements of both cubism and surrealism to create a unique personal style suffused with intelligence, wit, irreverence, and emotion through a century of huge social and political change. Previously appraised in relation to her connections to better-known male figures of British and European modernism such as Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Roland Penrose and Paul Eluard, this first major survey of her work will place her firmly as a pioneering surrealist artist in her own right, illuminating her progressive attitudes to making, sexuality and art history.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title held at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 19 May-29 August 2021; Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 25 September 2021-9 January 2022; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, 29 January-7 May 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Iwona Blazwick -- Eileen Agar : angel of anarchy / Laura Smith -- Aurora's Hands / Eileen Agar -- The natural fantastic of Eileen Agar / Marina Warner -- Plates -- Alukah (horse-leech) pantoum for Agar / Daisy Lafarge -- Eileen Agar and photography / Grace Storey -- Eileen Agar and collage / Andrew Lambirth -- A journey through the eye / Eileen Agar.

Eileen Aigar (b.1899 Buenos Aires; d.1991 London) is an often overlooked but crucial figure within the development of European twentieth-century culture. Throughout her 80-year career she synthesised elements of both cubism and surrealism to create a unique personal style suffused with intelligence, wit, irreverence, and emotion through a century of huge social and political change. Previously appraised in relation to her connections to better-known male figures of British and European modernism such as Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Roland Penrose and Paul Eluard, this first major survey of her work will place her firmly as a pioneering surrealist artist in her own right, illuminating her progressive attitudes to making, sexuality and art history.