Dorothea Tanning - A Surrealist World

This study overhauls canonical accounts of Surrealism, demonstrating how one woman artist expanded its activity and expression in bold new ways for the modern age

About the author

Alyce Mahon is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in Surrealism and the international avant-garde with a particular interest in women artists, feminist art history, and the dynamic between the represented body and the body politic.

Product details

• Authors: Alyce Mahon, Mahon Alyce
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780300244601
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24460-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Women Artists, History of Art, Modernism, Gender studies: women, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Gender studies: women and girls