Edith Rimmington and British Surrealism: War, Goddess Imagery and the Significance of the Ocean

这个合作博士项目的重点将是伊迪丝·里明顿（Edith Rimmington，1902-1986）的生活和职业生涯，她是一位英国艺术家，尽管她对超现实主义做出了重大贡献，但她的作品却一直被忽视。在1936年之前，人们对里明顿的早期生活知之甚少，当时她参观了伦敦伯灵顿画廊著名的国际超现实主义展览。到1937年，她已经是英国超现实主义团体的正式成员，并参加了同年在伦敦画廊举行的超现实主义物品和诗歌展览。里明顿的作品也在国际上展出，最著名的是1947年在巴黎的Galerie Maeght举行的超现实主义展览，许多该领域的学者认为这是最后一次伟大的超现实主义展览。尽管Rimmington的画作The Oneiroscopist（布面油画，1947）成为英国超现实主义运动的象征，但主要的学术研究尚未详细分析她的绘画，素描，拼贴，诗歌或自动写作。 这个项目的研究将是基于对象和档案为导向，并将为里明顿的重要性，我们对超现实主义的理解的情况。学生，托尔斯科特，将建立在英国超现实主义的分析，由著名的权威，如米歇尔雷米和分析里明顿的艺术实践之间的1937年至1972年，特别侧重于两次世界大战期间。该项目不仅将在她同时代的女性（如Eileen Agar，Emmy Bridgewater，Marion Adnams和Ithell Colqhoun）的背景下探索Rimmington的写作和视觉艺术，还将参考艺术史理论，如J.L.卡希尔（特别是关于战争恐怖期间逃避现实的海洋意象），以及惠特尼·查德威克、帕特里夏·奥尔默和凯特·康利等学者对超现实主义的女权主义方法。本论文将探讨神话、女神理论、生物形态论、色情和神秘学等主题，所有这些主题都深深地嵌入了超现实主义的经典之中。

The focus of this collaborative doctoral project will be the life and career of Edith Rimmington (1902-1986), a British artist whose work has been much neglected despite her significant contributions to Surrealism. Little is known about Rimmington's early life before 1936, when she visited the famous International Surrealist exhibition at the Burlington Galleries in London. By 1937 she was an established, if not formal, member of the British Surrealist Group and participated in the Surrealist Objects and Poems exhibition at the London Gallery that same year. Rimmington's work was also exhibited internationally, most notably at the Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1947 at the Galerie Maeght, which many academics in the field consider to be the last great Surrealist exhibition. Despite Rimmington's painting The Oneiroscopist (oil on canvas, 1947) becoming emblematic of the British Surrealist movement, major scholarly studies have yet to analyse her paintings, drawings, collage, poetry or automatic writing in any detail. The research for this project will be object-based and archive-oriented and will make a case for Rimmington's importance to our understanding of Surrealism. The student, Tor Scott, will build on the analysis of British Surrealism by noted authorities such as Michel Remy and to analyse Rimmington's artistic practice between 1937-1972, with a specific focus on the interwar period. The project will not only explore Rimmington's writing and visual art in the context of her female contemporaries (such as Eileen Agar, Emmy Bridgewater, Marion Adnams and Ithell Colqhoun), but will also refer to art-historical theories such as Zoological Surrealism as proposed by scholars such as J. L. Cahill (particularly with reference to sea imagery denoting escapism during the horrors of war), and feminist approaches to Surrealism by scholars such as Whitney Chadwick, Patricia Allmer and Kate Conley. The thesis will explore themes such as mythology, Goddess Theory, biomorphisim, eroticism and the occult, all of which are deeply embeded within the Surrealist canon.