Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Stuckey, Charles F.
2. Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.
3. Kent Gallery.

Description

1. 92 pages : illustrations (some color); 19 cm

Summary

1. This volume presents the work of American painter Dorothea Tanning (b. 1910), focusing on her group of paintings dubbed "The Insomnias." One of America's major surrealist artists, Tanning first came to fame in the 1940s, however, in the 1950s she felt a growing need to move beyond the prevailing idiom of surrealist representation. The Insomnias group takes its name from a painting of the same title that Tanning made in 1957. These works 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. The author describes these multidimensional mind spaces as among the most ambitious and sophisticated paintings to address the dilemmas of imagination and culture in a new atomic, space-race age.

Alternative title

1. Insomnias : paintings from 1954 to 1965

Subject

1. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012 > Exhibitions
2. Surrealism > Exhibitions

Call number

1. JQC 17-72

Note

1. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Kent Gallery, Oct. 21-Dec. 3, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Tanning, Dorothea, 1910-2012.

Title

1. Dorothea Tanning : Insomnias : paintings from 1954 to 1965 / with texts by Charles Stuckey and Richard Howard.

Imprint

1. New York, NY : Kent Gallery, ©2005.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Stuckey, Charles F.
2. Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.
3. Kent Gallery.

LCCN

1. 2006299169

ISBN

1. 1878607952 (hardcover)
2. 9781878607959 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JQC 17-72