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Dorothea Tanning : Doesn't the paint say it all?

Title
  1. Dorothea Tanning : Doesn't the paint say it all? / Dorothea Tanning ; introduction by Pamela S Johnson ; texts by Victoria Carruthers, Mary Ann Caws, and Kate Conley ; "To Paint" by Dorothea Tanning.
Published by
  1. [New York, New York] : Gallery Paul Kasmin, [2022]
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012

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Additional authors
  1. Johnson, Pamela S., 1947-
  2. Carruthers, Victoria
  3. Caws, Mary Ann
  4. Conley, Kate
  5. Paul Kasmin Gallery, host institution, publisher.
Description
  1. 83 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Summary
  1. American Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910=2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century's most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning's work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today. This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning's works created between the 1950s and '90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist's career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist's practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning's 1986 essay 'To Paint,' a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.
Alternative title
  1. Doesn't the paint say it all?
Subject
  1. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012 > Exhibitions
  2. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012 > Criticism and interpretation > Exhibitions
  3. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012
  4. 1900-1999
  5. Surrealism > 20th century > Exhibitions
  6. Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  7. Surrealism
  8. ART / General
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Introduction / Pamela S Johnson -- The poetry of Door 84 / Mary Ann Caws -- Dorothea Tannin's Far From Revolution / Kate Conley -- "Swimming upstream" and the creative (re)turn / Victoria Carruthers -- Plates -- Installation Views -- To paint / Dorothea Tanning
Call number
  1. N6537.T36
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kasmin, March 3-April 16, 2022.