A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm
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2022
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032339825 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032339825 (ISBN)
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 fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning’s writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss," a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend.
McAra performs a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
McAra performs a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
Dr Catriona McAra is Curatorial and Exhibitions Manager at Leeds College of Art. She was awarded her doctorate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow (2012) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh (2013-2014).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Cast List and Key Scenes
Introduction: Excavating an Abyss: From Manuscript to Novel (1947-2004)
1 Unpacking Tanning’s Library
2 The Alternative Reality of Sedona
3 Surrealism in the Attic
4 The Fur of the Fairy Tale
5 Quoting "Tanning": Surrealist Heirlooms in Contemporary Practice
Bibliography
Appendices
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Surrealism |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Illustrations, color; 42 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| ISBN-13 | 9781032339825 / 9781032339825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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