A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm (Studies in Surrealism)

By: Catriona McAra

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Synopsis: 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a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 128 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781315390567
Related ISBNs:: 9781315390550, 9781315390581, 9781472463449, 9781315390574, 9781032339825
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/05/24
Copyrighted By:: Catriona McAra
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts
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