A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and author
American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century-s most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning-s work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today.
This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning-s works created between the 1950s and -90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist-s career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist-s practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning-s 1986 essay -To Paint,- a poetic and impassioned manifesto on pai
