Dorothea Tanning : A Surrealist World
Regular price £30.00A scholarly book that maps Tanning’s extraordinary seventy-year career
Born on the day of a hurricane in Galesburg, Illinois, Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) would become a figure at the very heart of the avant-garde, among a close circle of contemporaries including Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Lee Miller and Man Ray. Her art and philosophical ideas reveal her transformative impact on post-war Surrealism, and her life story reveals how she skilfully navigated her role as a woman artist on the international stage.
Alyce Mahon maps Tanning’s extraordinary seventy-year career—from Chicago and Arizona to Paris and Seillans, through to her final years in New York—and traces how these landscapes were reshaped into kaleidoscopic imagined worlds in her paintings, sculptures and writings.
Details
- Author: Alyce Mahon
- Hardcover: 264 pages | 99 colour illustrations
- Date published: April 2026
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780300244601
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 17.7 cm
