Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 1954-1965

Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 1954-1965

Dorothea Tanning, who was born in 1910 in Galesburg, a town on the Illinois prairie, is one of Americaâ‚¬s major surrealist artists. She first came to fame in the 1940s when she showed in the gallery of Julien Levy, New Yorkâ‚¬s preeminent dealer of surrealism. However, in the 1950s she felt a growing need to move beyond the prevailing idiom of surrealist representation. She describes what happened: â‚¬Å“Around 1955 my canvases literally splintered . . . I broke the mirror, you might say.â‚¬Â The resulting paintings are vibrant with faceted colors and shifting spaces. The Insomnias â‚¬" the group takes its name from a painting of the same title that Tanning made in 1957 â‚¬" are forays into the realm of conjured energies; they represent a vigorous expansion of form and content at a crucial historical moment that continues to reverberate today. Charles Stuckey describes these â‚¬Å“seemingly multidimensional mindspacesâ‚¬Â as â‚¬Å“among the most ambitious and sophisticated paintings to address the dilemmas of imagination and culture in a new atomic, space-race age.â‚¬Â
Country USA
Manufacturer Kent Gallery
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9781878607959
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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