A surrealist stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm / / Catriona McAra

• Autore: McAra Catriona
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 813/.6
• Soggetto topico: Surrealism (Literature)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Unpacking Tanning's library -- 2. The alternative reality of Sedona -- 3. Surrealism in the attic -- 4. The fur of the fairy tale -- 5. Quoting "Tanning" : surrealist heirlooms in contemporary practice.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 'A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm', Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American surrealist painter and soft sculptor. McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tanning's writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on the little-known manuscript, Abyss, a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning (1910-2012) worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as 'Chasm: A Weekend'. McAra undertakes a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a ground-breaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics, and with access to Tanning's unpublished journals and notes, McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
• Titolo autorizzato: A surrealist stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning's Chasm
• ISBN: 1-315-39056-6; 1-315-39058-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150341103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II