Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World

Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist WorldThe artist, writer and poet, Dorothea Tanning was a central figure in the Surrealist movement. This book shows how one trailblazing woman artist expanded Surrealism in bold new ways for the modern age. Born on the day of a hurricane in Galesburg, Illinois, Dorothea Tanning (19102012) would become a figure at the very heart of the avant garde, among a close circle of contemporaries including Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Lee Miller and Man Ray. Her art

poetry by Deena Metzger and an extract from an interview on activism by Andrea Bowers

C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture

Includes a black organza pouch

The development of these concerns is traced over the course of the past four decades and concludes with artworks from the present day

Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival

It’s a claim to forgiveness

Quick-access pocket keeps other essentials in reach

non-toxic Lascaux Studio inks

establishing the historical backdrop against which queer art has evolved

This book pays homage to the illusory power of painting and at the same time takes a worldwide tour through the everyday culture of the modern age: images of vehicles with gleaming chrome in middle-class residential areas

both real and imagined

or rail against it