The Muse Unmasked: Eileen Agar's Objective Correlatives

From: Femspec | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Harrison, Janet | Copyright information

The found object had a special significance for me, for the selection of one particular thing from amongst a host of others, whether stones or bones, has often provided the solution to a creative problem, or provoked its own separate inspiration. (Agar, Life 141)

During the 1930s the Surrealist found object was to become an important and pivotal artistic practice for Eileen Agar. As she later remarked: "Trawling for objects became a favorite working method of mine" (Agar, Life 94). Thi...

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