Quiet Mystery
Jennifer Mundy, Tate Etc.
August 2003
‘It can safely be said,’ Dorothea Tanning wrote in her memoir, Between Lives, ‘that during this last century our way of seeing the world was profoundly changed by contact with Surrealism.’ The modern world, she added, had perhaps more completely embraced and made its own the iconoclasm of the earlier Dada movement. But it was Surrealism – ‘a milder form of challenge and far more suited to poetry and painting’ – that altered our perception of things. It also transformed her life. […]