Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021

Author, Arts Writer, Journalist, Activist | Kahlo, Carrington, Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Edward James, Roberto Bolaño ...

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

THE GUARDIAN | print edition | 10 Aug 2021
Margaret Hooks
Foreign correspondent, human rights activist and author of acclaimed books on women and art

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

THE GUARDIAN | 06 Aug 2021
Margaret Hooks obituary
Foreign correspondent, human rights activist and author of acclaimed books on women and art
by Duncan Campbell | Photo: Liba Taylor
https://t.co/q0u7CDmRJ7

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Margaret Hooks: Irish chronicler of Mexican life and art
Belfast-born journalist and author wrote the definitive biography of #TinaModotti
https://t.co/UvDg1keGPh
#FridaKahlo #EdwardJames #LeonoraCarrington #MaxErnst #Surrealism #SurrealEden #SurrealLovers #Mexico #Guatemala

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Two great photographers, friends who not only shared birthdays but also a studio in Berlin. #TinaModotti arrived there when she was expelled from Mexico in 1930. #LotteJacobi invited her to share her studio and facilitated a show of her work. #womenartists #womenphotographers

[Read More Women @WomenRead]

"I looked like an angel, but I was a fiend inside."

American photographer and photojournalist, Lee Miller died #OnThisDay in 1977 #ReadMoreWomen

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

"Jorge Luis Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives ... great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style." @ParisReview #Borges #literature
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[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

British Library Women Writers series, coming autumn 2020... sounds interesting!
#ReadMoreWomen #WomenWriters via @WomenRead

[British Library Publishing @BL_Publishing]

Our #WomenWriters series returns this Autumn with four fantastic new titles - starting with Rose Macaulay's 'Dangerous Ages' publishing next month.

These authors have been selected, not just for the strength of their writing and...

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

My book @SurrealEden about #EdwardJames & #LasPozas again available in the UK at https://t.co/hOVCZJnkzs and in the U.S. at https://t.co/iU2ukiihZI #Surrealism #Art #Mexico #Xilitla

[PelhamCommunications @PelhamComms]

#Prado200 : The Prado Museum Unveils a Special Old-Master Emoji to Celebrate Its 200th Birthday : https://t.co/iSFX93Wcin

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

My article on Leonora Carrington in Mexico, out now @thedailybeast
https://t.co/0SqQKqKxl3
#LeonoraCarrington #Mexico #womenartists #arte

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Leonor Fini, #surrealist artist who refused to be a muse, produced fascinating work & famously rejected Max Ernst.
Read more about her in #SurrealLovers #LeonorFini #womenartists #surreallovers.com

[Robin Cembalest @rcembalest]

She self-identified with sphinxes, witches & owls, rejected conventions like marriage & labels like Surrealism, illustrated de Sade & lived her life as performance: meet Argentine-Italian artist Leonor Fini @museumofsex

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Dorothea Tanning - a great artist who published her first book of poetry at age 89! #DorotheaTanning #poetry #womenartists #poets

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

"You and the werewolf: newlyweds." A surefire way to get into the halloween spirit? "All Hallows' Eve" by Dorothea Tanning.
https://t.co/37R4nu2C6t

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Demythologize Modotti the legend, extricate her from the shadows of her lovers and locate the woman and the artist at the centre of her own history -
Margaret Hooks in 'Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary' #Womenartists #womenphotographers #tinamodotti

[Tina @TinaModotti45]

"Desmitificar a Modotti, la leyenda, rescatarla de las sombras de sus amantes y ubicar a la mujer y a la artista en el centro de la propia historia" - Margaret Hooks -

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

A New Documentary Perfectly Captures the Passion and Absurdity of the Art Market https://t.co/o90ZgSU4zU via @artsy

[Surreal Lovers @SurrealLovers]

'Leonor Fini And The Women Who Wear Halloween Costumes Every Day' https://t.co/guP3aappq6 @HuffPost | #LeonorFini, like #LeonoraCarrington & #MeretOppenheim, also ditched #MaxErnst ... Read the full story in https://t.co/oq9wjmyx68 by @Margaret_Hooks

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Patti Smith & Leonora Carrington hmmm... think they would have liked each other!

[Hilary Goodfriend @HilaryGoodfrien]

I just ran into Patti Smith at the Leonora Carrington exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and can die now

[Surreal Lovers @SurrealLovers]

Opening tonight, Dorothea Tanning retrospective exhibit at @museoreinasofia in #Madrid https://t.co/REPLrYItMg | Read more about #DorotheaTanning in ��Surreal Lovers’ by @Margaret_Hooks | https://t.co/oq9wjmyx68

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Essay on 'Frida’s clothes' in Eng/Span from my book 'Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon' now available online | In English, here: https://t.co/MEdPQfEEmZ | In Spanish, here: https://t.co/s7hN8U40Xm | #FridaFriday #Frida #Kahlo #FridaKahlo

[Surreal Lovers @SurrealLovers]

Luise Straus, #art critic, historian, curator, journalist, first wife of #MaxErnst, trapped in France during 1940s and hunted by the Gestapo ... Read her story in 'Surreal Lovers' by @Margaret_Hooks | https://t.co/oq9wjmQ7XG | #LuiseStraus #arthistory #artcriticism #Dada #writers

[Margaret Hooks | 1945-2021 @Margaret_Hooks]

Vea 'El vestuario de Frida: un lenguaje personal' ... de mi libro 'Frida Kahlo: la gran ocultadora' (2002), texto disponible ahora en línea en: https://t.co/h0vbqlJpxD #FridaKahlo #Frida #Kahlo #arte #mexico #artemexicano #mujeres #mujeresartistas @museofridakahlo