{"product_id":"dorothea-tanning-a-surrealist-world-9780300244601","title":"Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis study overhauls canonical accounts of Surrealism, demonstrating how one woman artist expanded its activity and expression in bold new ways for the modern age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlyce Mahon\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSurrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEroticism and Art\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous essays on Surrealism and the international avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52174777680146,"sku":"9780300244601","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_040def31-e3f6-47b7-bacc-e76f0f5f80c0.jpg?v=1775558735","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dorothea-tanning-a-surrealist-world-9780300244601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}