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Alyce Mahon
This study overhauls canonical accounts of Surrealism, demonstrating how one woman artist expanded its activity and expression in bold new ways for the modern age
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Dorothea Tanning
The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told.
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Victoria Carruthers
Dorothea Tanning was one of the most fascinating and significant American artists of the 20th century. Extensively illustrated and featuring unpublished material from interviews, this book will appeal to the…
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Still later, when I was more in touch withthe world, they told me, You have a future.
I thought that over. Even if I believed them,what did my…
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Renowned painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning imagines and realises a collage of surreal wit, formal inventiveness, and urban and whimsical visuals. Oh, we were primed like canvas’, she writes in…
Chasm is the only novel by Dorothea Tanning, the famed surrealist artist, and was published when she was 93 years old.
Catriona McAra
In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). McAra…
A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and author
American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over…
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Amy Lyford
The first full account of Dorothea Tanning's surrealist art, sculptures, abstract paintings and films.