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title: "Far away from Paris: the surrealistic network in Mexico"
date: 2020-02-14
last_modified: 2024-11-16T16:23:52+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/far-away-from-paris-the-surrealistic-network-in-mexico-fantastische-frauen-2020-context-en/"
description: "After the outbreak of World War II, Mexico developed into a new center of the surrealist avant-garde. It was only here that many women artists found the freedom to reinvent themselves."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/header_Kahlo_Selbstbildnis_auf_der_Grenze_1932.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Far away from Paris: the surrealistic network in Mexico