Surrealist

Interest in Joyce Mansour has centered mostly on the ambiguity and the lack of “subjective identity” in her poetic works. This dissertation proposes to investigate that notion and demonstrates that Mansour’s discourse is that of a woman poet’s assertive, complex, and universal v…

My research on Victor Brauner’s work in the first two decades of his affiliation with the Surrealist group in Paris re-establishes the role played by the Romanian Jewish artist in the definition of automatic Surrealist procedures of painting and mixed-technique objects that reli…