<div>Jim Burns begain reviewing restaurants for the Los Angeles Times in 1981. He has served as Associate Editor for The Los Angeles Times Guide to Dining Out in L.A., Managing Editor for InSpain magazine in Madrid, Spain, and Travel Editor for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.</div>

Women Chefs: A Collection Of Portraits And Recipes From California's Culinary Pioneers

BURNS, JIM

Brown, Betty Ann

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Da Capo Press

Exposures: Women & Their Art

Offers portraits and brief profiles of fifty contemporary women artists

Raven, Arlene

Love, Kenna

Arts & Photography

Newsage Pr

Biographies & Memoirs

Offers portraits and brief profiles of fifty contemporary women artists

Exposures: Women and Their Art

Women and Their Art: Contemporary Perspectives

Gradiva's Mirror is a work of scholarly yet creative nonfiction that weaves autobiographical reflections into art historical analyses of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and texts created by eleven women associated with Surrealism. The women whose work is discussed are: Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Gala Dali, Frida Kahlo, Valentine Hugo, Maria Izquierdo, Jacqueline Lamba, Simone Mareuil, Lee Miller, Alice Rahon and Remedios Varo. The title of the book comes from two central Surrealist icons: Gradiva, the mythic female figure created by German novelist Wilhelm Jensen, analyzed by Sigmund Freud, and adopted by André Breton as a pivotal symbol; and the mirror, employed by the Surrealists as an emblem of reflection and receptivity (rather than as a reference to human vanity.) 
Gradiva’s Mirror is structured as a chronological "triptych." The three sections focus on the decades following: 1929, the year women began to have a significant presence in Parisian Surrealism; 1939, the year World War II was declared and many European artists fled to the Americas in order to avoid persecution by Hitler; and 1949, the year several Surrealist women who had settled in Mexico City began sustained periods of mature and independent work. Each section of the book begins with a description of the nature of Surrealism at that time and concludes with an imagined conversation between the author and the women featured in that section. The introduction to Gradiva’s Mirror is written by Gloria Orenstein, renowned ecofeminist and scholar, who has published extensively on the women of Surrealism.

Gradiva's Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism and Art History

History & Criticism

Midmarch Arts Pr

Of Blood and Wine

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Brown, Kerry

Mystery

Independently published

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