Where the Familiar Becomes Fantasy
Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times
February 2019
“Women artists. There is no such thing — or person. It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as ‘man artist’ or ‘elephant artist’.” So Dorothea Tanning, born 1910, insisted throughout her very long life — she died in 2012, far enough into the 21st century to see the transformation of art history by gender studies and identity politics: precisely the concepts fuelling interest in her work now. […]