Exquisite Dreams

The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

Amy Lyford

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Reaktion Books
01 March 2024

Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: arts & entertainment

Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of Dorothea Tanning's art and life. Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning's lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures, abstract paintings and films. Setting Tanning's writings, biography and art into the contexts of advertising, fashion, popular culture and art in New York and Paris, Lyford brings Tanning's ideas and feelings to life. Using new archival sources and analyses of Tanning's work in a variety of media, Lyford broadens our understanding of the artist. This amply illustrated book is an important contribution to the history of women artists, gender and sexuality studies, as well as the history of Surrealism. It will appeal to art historians and art lovers alike.

By: Amy Lyford
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm,
ISBN: 9781789147971
ISBN 10: 1789147972
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Refashioning Surrealism Chapter 2: Screening Female Desire Chapter 3: Miseducated Girls Chapter 4: Aux environs de Paris and Historical Memory Chapter 5: Sculpture and Narrative: Body Hauntings Chapter 6: No Exit: Tanning's Cinematic Vision Epilogue References Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

Amy Lyford is the Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the author of Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France and Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930-1950.

Reviews for Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

'Amy Lyford has shaped a plethora of archival information into a story of Dorothea Tanning’s life and works. Exquisite Dreams is a highly readable page turner that engages fully with Tanning’s canny critiques of gender and sexuality and illuminates the complexities of Tanning’s life showing Tanning to be one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century.' – Jennifer Shaw, Sonoma State University, author of Exist Otherwise