Dorothea Tanning
A Surrealist World
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Publishing:10th Feb '26
£30.00
This title is due to be published on 10th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Born on the day of a hurricane in Galesburg, Illinois, Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) would become a figure at the very heart of the avant-garde, among a close circle of contemporaries including Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Lee Miller and Man Ray. Her art and philosophical ideas reveal her transformative impact on post-war Surrealism, and her life story reveals how she skilfully navigated her role as a woman artist on the international stage. Alyce Mahon maps Tanning’s extraordinary seventy-year career – from Chicago and Arizona to Paris and Seillans, through to her final years in New York – and traces how these landscapes were reshaped into kaleidoscopic imagined worlds in her paintings, sculptures and writings.
In this long-awaited, enthralling study Alyce Mahon shows how Dorothea Tanning brought a new and necessary Surrealism to a war-ravaged world and offers stunning analyses of Tanning's very rich and varied oeuvre.
-- Dawn Ades, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of EssexAlyce Mahon brings a welcome feminist perspective to a traditionally male-dominated narrative while also deftly analysing Surrealist practice across a broader geographical and historical context in this fascinating new study.
-- Frances Morris, Former Director of Tate ModernAn absorbing journey through the real and imagined landscapes of Dorothea Tanning that broadens our understanding of Surrealism
-- Manuel Borja-Villel, Former Director of Museo Reina SISBN: 9780300244601
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264 pages