Glowing Like Phosphorus: Dorothea Tanning and the Sedona Western
| Abstract | In the mid-1940s, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst left the urbane, avant-garde circles of Manhattan to build a house and studio in the then remote Southwestern outpost of Sedona, Arizona. Many have written of Ernst’s fascination with indigenous artefacts but there was another pop cultural format that emerged concurrently with their time in Sedona: the genre of the Hollywood Western. Indeed, films like John Wayne’s Angel and the Badman (1947) and Johnny Guitar (1954) starring Joan Crawford were filmed in the immediate vicinity, amidst the iconic red rock landscape. Tanning’s topographical mapping of the desert, as found in paintings such as Self-Portrait (1944), Evening in Sedona (1976), and novella Chasm: A Weekend (2004), feature some of... (more) |
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| Created Date | 2019 |
| Contributor | McAra, Catriona |
| Series | Journal of Surrealism and the Americas Volume 10 Number 1 (2019) |
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| Citation | Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 10:1 (2019), 84-105 |
| Additional Formats | MODS / OAI Dublin Core / RIS |
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