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Exquisite Dreams
The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning
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Exquisite Dreams
The first full account of Dorothea Tanning's surrealist art, sculptures, abstract paintings and films.
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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 brings Tanning's ideas and feelings to life. Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning's work in a variety of media, Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist.
This amply illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism. It will appeal to art historians and art lovers alike.
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Exquisite Dreams skillfully weaves archival information into a compelling narrative about Dorothea Tanning's life and works. It offers insightful critiques of gender and sexuality while highlighting Tanning as a significant and intriguing artist of the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9781789147971
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 11 December 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Illustration: 129 illustrations, 85 in colour
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 250.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Amy Lyford is the 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 and Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950.
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