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OverviewExquisite 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy LyfordPublisher: Reaktion Books Imprint: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781789147971ISBN 10: 1789147972 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 11 December 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Refashioning Surrealism Chapter 2: Screening Female Desire Chapter 3: Miseducated Girls Chapter 4: Aux environs de Paris and Historical Memory Chapter 5: Sculpture and Narrative: Body Hauntings Chapter 6: No Exit: Tanning's Cinematic Vision Epilogue References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements IndexReviews'Amy Lyford has shaped a plethora of archival information into a story of Dorothea Tanning’s life and works. Exquisite Dreams is a highly readable page turner that engages fully with Tanning’s canny critiques of gender and sexuality and illuminates the complexities of Tanning’s life showing Tanning to be one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century.' – Jennifer Shaw, Sonoma State University, author of Exist Otherwise 'Amy Lyford has shaped a plethora of archival information into a story of Dorothea Tanning's life and works. Exquisite Dreams is a highly readable page turner that engages fully with Tanning's canny critiques of gender and sexuality and illuminates the complexities of Tanning's life showing Tanning to be one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century.' - Jennifer Shaw, Sonoma State University, author of Exist Otherwise Author InformationAmy Lyford is 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 (2007) and Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950 (2013, 2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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