Exquisite Dreams
The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning
Seiten
2023
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-797-1 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-797-1 (ISBN)
The first full account of Dorothea Tanning’s surrealist art, sculptures, abstract paintings and films.
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.
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.
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).
Introduction
Chapter 1: Refashioning Surrealism
Chapter 2: Screening Female Desire
Chapter 3: Miseducated Girls
Chapter 4: Aux environs de Paris and Historical Memory
Chapter 5: Sculpture and Narrative: Body Hauntings
Chapter 6: No Exit: Tanning's Cinematic Vision
Epilogue
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 129 illustrations, 85 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-797-2 / 1789147972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-797-1 / 9781789147971 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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