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A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm - Studies in Surrealism 1st edition
Catriona McAra
A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm - Studies in Surrealism 1st edition
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 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a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning's unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
142 pages, 42 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, 42 black & white halftones, 8 col
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 17, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781472463449 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 128 |
Dimensions | 253 × 181 × 13 mm · 554 g |
Language | English |
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