A great discussion of work by women involved with the Dada movement as well as the attitude of the male artists towards women.

Mary Ann Caws is one of the great contemporary historians of Surrealism. This is one of the few collections of scholarly essays & theory on surrealism and women.

This great book shows the artificiality of defining people by movements, instead illustrating the fluid movement of artistic gatherings and influences from "downtown" to "uptown" and the women inolved in art throughout New York in the largely interwar years.

An extraordinarily good collection of Dada writers, male and female. It gives you a good sense of the work of the era.

Carolyn Burke's comprehensive biography of Mina Loy. Starts out a little slow, but it's a fascinating read as you go along. Loy crossed paths with a variety of artists and movements.

Djuna was a cohort of Mina Loy and many dada and surrealist writers. While most people focus on her fiction, and particularly on her novel Nightwood, this collection of her short plays is an important part of her body of work, placing her also among the Provincetown Players and at the nexus of a number of exciting early modernist movements.

And of course, Djuna's biography

A collection of Barnes' essays and journalism, they provide insight into early feminist conversations, her relationships with prominent writers and artists, and various other political and artistic issues of her day.

The "feminal" biograpy on Frida by Hayden Herrera and apparently the basis for the movie. Kahlo once said that she didn't realize that she was a surrealist until Andre Breton pronounced her to be one. But her work definitely deals in the dream world, the unconscious, and the other-than-real.

Have not read this, but it's going on my wish list. Grand Street has published some amazing work and does a good job "curating" each issue.