Dorothea Tanning and Her Gothic Imagination
| Abstract | Spanning an 80 year career and encompassing vastly different styles and media, the work of Dorothea Tanning revolves around a handful of obsessions. From an early stage, Tanning seeks to develop a visual vocabulary that draws on the subversive potential of both surrealist and gothic sensibilities to explore the physical and psycho-emotional nature of childhood and feminine experience. By doing so, she evokes many of the familiar tropes of the gothic: the motif of the haunted house, for example, with its capacity to fold the supernatural into otherwise ordinary, domestic spaces or the use of veils, doorways and wallpaper as possible sites of transformative potential that reveal or conceal alternate states of reality. Tanning has written exte... (more) |
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| Created Date | 2011 |
| Contributor | Carruthers, Victoria (Author) |
| Series | Journal of Surrealism of the Americas, VOL 5, NO 1 (2011) |
| Type | Text, Peer-reviewed |
| Extent | 25 Pages |
| Language | English |
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| Additional Formats | MODS / OAI Dublin Core / RIS |
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