Alyce Mahon
Alyce Mahon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938–1968 (2005), Eroticism & Art (2007), The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde (2020), the edited catalogue Dorothea Tanning (2018), and numerous essays on Surrealist, avant-garde, and feminist art.
“If you love love, you’ll love Surrealism,” so the flyer read when Surrealism launched itself as an avant-garde movement and elected to literally cast its philosophy as papillons into the streets of Paris in 1925, one year after the publication of the first manifesto.