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 rimington, 1902-1986）的生活和职业生涯，这位英国艺术家的作品一直被忽视，尽管她对超现实主义做出了重大贡献。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办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，最引人注目的是1947年在巴黎Maeght画廊举办的超现实主义展览，该领域的许多学者认为这是最后一次伟大的超现实主义展览。尽管里明顿的油画《Oneiroscopist》（布面油画，1947年）成为英国超现实主义运动的象征，但主要的学术研究尚未对她的油画、素描、拼贴画、诗歌或自动写作进行任何细节的分析。这个项目的研究将以对象为基础，以档案为导向，并将证明里明顿对我们理解超现实主义的重要性。学生Tor Scott将以Michel Remy等著名权威对英国超现实主义的分析为基础，分析rimington在1937-1972年间的艺术实践，特别关注两次世界大战之间的时期。该项目不仅将在她同时代的女性（如艾琳·艾格、艾米·布里奇沃特、马里昂·阿德南斯和伊瑟尔·科尔霍恩）的背景下探索瑞明顿的写作和视觉艺术，而且还将参考艺术史理论，如j·l·卡希尔等学者提出的动物超现实主义（特别是参考战争恐怖期间象征逃避主义的海洋意象），以及惠特尼·查德威克等学者提出的超现实主义女权主义方法。帕特里夏·奥尔默和凯特·康利。本文将探讨的主题，如神话，女神理论，生物形态，色情和神秘，所有这些都深深嵌入在超现实主义经典。

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.