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Exquisite Dreams
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- Book Synopsis
- Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) has for decades been known primarily as a Surrealist, but Exquisite Dreams shows how the work of this passionate, dynamic, and voraciously curious artist is impossible to categorize. Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings, and films are explored here, and her writings, biography, and art are examined in the contexts of twentieth-century developments in advertising, fashion, popular culture, and art in New York and Paris.Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning's work in a variety of media, Amy Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist and illuminates her stunning diversity and achievement. This richly illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender, and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism.
- About The Author
- Amy Lyford is Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the author of Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (2007) and Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950 (2013, 2018).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781789147971
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books, (11 December 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 264
- Weight
- 1066 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 250 x 190 x 25 mm
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