Dorothea Tanning - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849766436 ISBN 13: 9781849766432

Casa editrice: Tate Gallery Pubn, 2018

Riassunto

A major retrospective of the seven-decade career of Dorothea Tanning, the multifaceted artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealist art
 
American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910&;2012) redrew the boundaries of surrealism. She first encountered the movement in New York in the 1930s, and in the 1940s, she married fellow painter Max Ernst and moved to the Arizona desert. Although surrounded by a vast landscape, her paintings from this time depict claustrophobic domestic spaces.
 
From Paris in the 1950s, Tanning&;s paintings became more abstract. In the 1960s, she created uncanny soft sculptures featuring contorted and intertwined bodies, connecting her lifelong interest in music and dance. In Dorothea Tanning, Alyce Mahon provides a comprehensive overview of Tanning&;s multilayered career. Idoia Murga Castro considers Tanning&;s love of ballet, and Ann Coxon explores Tanning&;s influence today.
 

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L'autore

Alyce Mahon teaches modern and contemporary art history at the University of Cambridge. Idoia Murga Castro is a tenured researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid. Ann Coxon is curator of displays and international art at Tate Modern in London.
 

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While a young student in Chicago, Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) regularly haunted the corridors of the Art Institute in order to learn `what painting was'. She later moved to New York, and met the art dealer, Julien Levy, who introduced her to surrealist refugees who had fled from occupied Europe, including her future husband Max Ernst. Tanning and Ernst settled first in Sedona, Arizona,where she created enigmatic paintings of life on the inside, looking out (including Tate's own Eine Kleine Nachtmusik from 1943). The couple transferred to Paris in 1956, a move which marked the beginning of Tanning's intense adventure in soft sculpture, featuring fleshy, figure-like protruberances captured in textured fabrics.
Tanning returned to the USA after Ernst's death in 1976 and, while continuing to paint, she also began to write poetry and fiction. Dorothea Tanning died at her home in New York City on January 31, 2012. She was 101 years old. There is little in print detailing Tanning's entire career, and still less that is well illustrated.
This book will be a beautiful introduction to the work of a remarkable and fascinating artist. It will include an overview of the artist's life and career written by Alyce Mahon; Ann Coxon will write on theme of the home and domestic in Tanning's art and examine the overlap with the several contemporary women artists; Idoia Murga Castro will explore the significance of dance and stage in tanning's work, with particular relevance to the drama of the 1940s and 50s; and Mahon will also write on Tanning's sculptural output. The texts and plates are to be punctuated by extracts from Tanning's diaries.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Tate Gallery Pubn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1849766436
• ISBN 13: 9781849766432
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 205
• Redattore: Mahon Alyce