The women in the movement were also expected to serve double duty as muses, which must have been confusing, to put it mildly. Perhaps this pleasantly ironic collage by Valentine Penrose is a comment upon this matter. It’s from her collage-and-poetry book Don de Feminines—or The Gift of Women.
 
Valentine Penrose, from the book Don de Feminines, 1951. Zabriskie Gallery. 

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