"When André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement and author of its first manifesto, wrote
that 'the problem of woman is the most marvelous and disturbing problem
in all the world,' he was not alluding to the unfair lack of
recognition experienced by his female peers. Marquee name Surrealists like Breton, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, René Magritte, and Max Ernst positioned the women in their circle as muses and symbols of erotic femininity, rather than artists in their own right. ..."
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