Abstract
'A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm' offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). This 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.'
The book 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a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, this book reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
The book 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a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanning’s unpublished journals and notes, this book reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315390581 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032339825 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Surrealism |
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