Amy Lyford

Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings, and films. Setting Tanning's writings, biography, and art into the contexts of advertising, fashion, popular culture, and art in New York and Paris, Lyford...