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Dorothea Tanning
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- Book Synopsis
- This study overhauls canonical accounts of Surrealism, demonstrating how one woman artist expanded its activity and expression in bold new ways for the modern ageBorn 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.
- About The Author
- Alyce Mahon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968; Eroticism and Art; The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde, and numerous essays on Surrealism and the international avant-garde.
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- ISBN
- 9780300244601
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, (07 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 241 x 170 mm
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