Exquisite Dreams
2023
Published by Reaktion Books19 x 25320 pagesPaperbackISBN 9781789147971
Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning demonstrates how the work of this voraciously curious artist is impossible to categorise, despite Tanning’s enduring reputation as a Surrealist. The publication features Tanning’s lesser-known sculptures, abstract paintings, and films alongside her writings and biography, examining all these facets of her career within the context of twentieth-century developments in advertising, fashion, popular culture and art in New York and Paris. Using new archival sources and analysis of Tanning’s work, Amy Lyford broadens our understanding of Dorothea Tanning.