Cuando la musa pinta y escribe: Elizabeth Bishop y las pintoras surrealistas.

Abstract

This essay discusses the affinities between Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the painting of several surrealist women artists in the light of the gender problematics associated to the surrealist male chauvinism. A study of Bishop’s affinities with surrealist women painters shows how they resorted to very similar strategies of subversion within the male surrealist replication of a patriarchal framework. Their quest for artistic maturity led them to a twice-subversive poetics where their vindication of magic, the domestic, and the identification between woman and nature forms part of a revisionist strategy