Highlights the struggle of Maruja Mallo and other women artists against the rampant misogyny of both Spanish culture and the avant-garde community of the time. This book also analyzes the effects of the Spanish Civil War. It demonstrates that she was a driving force in the flowering of Spanish culture through the 1920s and 1930s. Prize: Selected for an Honorable mention in the Eleanor Tufts Award 2012 'This book is a major contribution to studies of the highly regarded twentieth-century Spanish painter, Maruja Mallo, and more broadly to our knowledge of the Spanish avant-garde, that extraordinary flowering of Spanish culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Shirley Mangini has masterfully woven together the historical context, the artist's personal biography, and analyses of the various phases of her painting into a gripping narrative. Hers is an authoritative and detailed account of this astonishing woman, who forged an artistic career in an era in Spain that was particularly hostile to women artists and writers.' Roberta Johnson, University of Kansas and UCLA, USA, author of Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel