Exquisite Dreams by Amy Lyford
The first full account of Dorothea Tannings surrealist art, sculptures, abstract paintings and films.
'Amy Lyford has shaped a plethora of archival information into a story of Dorothea Tanning's life and worksExquisite 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
Amy Lyford is 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 (2007) and Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930–1950 (2013, 2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789147971 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789147972 |
| Title | Exquisite Dreams |
| Author | Amy Lyford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2023-12-11 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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