Reconstructing Toyen

05.11.2009

  A prominent female member of the prewar Czech avant-garde, the painter Toyen had a richly various career that took her from Cubism, through the painterly abstraction of "Artificialism, "to an extended Surrealist period. A recent museum retrospective in Prague offered a rare look at her work. The history of Czech avant-garde art is largely a story written by men about men. While a number of remarkable women artists worked in the decorative arts, the field of so-called high art, including...

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