Mary Ann Caws is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of CUNY.
Her areas of interest in 20th century avant-garde literature and art include Surrealism, poets René Char and André Breton, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, and artists Robert Motherwell, Joseph Cornell, and Pablo Picasso.
Her books include Pablo Picasso, To the Boathouse: A Memoir, Marcel Proust, Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind, and Picasso’s Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar.
Caws has also translated several books by André Breton, including Mad Love and Break of Day (with Mark Polizzotti), and she has edited The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter and Manifesto: A Century of Isms. Her most recent book is Surprised in Translation.
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