Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

Author:   Amy Lyford
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
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9781789147971


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   11 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning


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Author:   Amy Lyford
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9781789147971


ISBN 10:   1789147972
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   11 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Index

Reviews

'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 Information

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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