A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm Paperback / softback
by Catriona McAra
Part of the Studies in Surrealism series
Paperback / softback
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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a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages, 8 Illustrations, color; 42 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/06/2022
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- ISBN:9781032339825
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages, 8 Illustrations, color; 42 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032339825
