Tanning Dorothea - Dorothea Tanning: Doesn T The Paint Say It All? - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.
Title: Dorothea Tanning: Doesn T The Paint Say It All?
Author(s): Tanning Dorothea
Publisher: Paul Kasmin Gallery
Barcode: 9781947232983
Pages: 84 Pages, 32 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/1/2022
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs