| A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm Contributor(s): McAra, Catriona (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472463447 ISBN-13: 9781472463449 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2016026056 |
| Series: Studies in Surrealism |
| Physical Information: 128 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning's writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story "Abyss," a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend. McAra performs a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning's unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu. |