Dorothea Tanning
Alyce Mahon
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This study overhauls canonical accounts of Surrealism, demonstrating how one woman artist expanded its activity and expression in bold new ways for the modern ageBorn 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.