Painting and Perception Collide in the Work of Dorothea Tanning
Claire-Louise Bennett, frieze
March 2019
In my favourite novel by Javier Marías, an opera singer recounts a dream – a dream that is very similar to a fateful episode that occurred during his waking hours some four years previously. In order to recall what happened and the dream of what happened, the two versions must remain indistinguishable from each other and, to this end, he selects to forgo breakfast. […]