Bøger af Alyce Mahon

Born in the small town of Galesburg, Illinois, the life, and art of Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) perfectly exemplifies the transnational spirit and nomadic practice of Surrealism, though it was all the harder an achievement for a woman. In Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World we travel with her across lived places and imagined spaces in Chicago, Arizona, Paris, Seillans, through to her final years in New York. Expertly drawn from extensive archival and curatorial research to map the artist’s life story across a seventy-year career, Alyce Mahon situates Tanning at the very heart of avant-garde discussions on art and philosophical ideas. She explores how this circle of relationships informed Tanning’s work at critical moments of her career and how she navigated the difficulty of being the wife of a male artist already established on the international stage. Mahon demonstrates how Tanning’s work expanded post-war global Surrealism in offering a world of kaleidoscopic, constantly shifting perspectives.

International Journal of Surrealism (IJS) creates a welcome space for critical ideas and debate centered on Surrealism, its international history, and its ongoing worldwide influence on contemporary culture. The journal seeks to document, celebrate, and interrogate the intellectual and aesthetic repercussions of the Surrealist movement across a wide array of fields: literature and literary theory; painting, sculpture, and photography; performance, film, and music; and philosophy, political thought, and new media. Encompassing both scholarly and creative perspectives on Surrealism and its global manifestations, IJS is committed to exploring the practice and reception of Surrealism around the world, throughout the Global South as well as in Europe and the Global North, within and by Indigenous cultures and international movements. IJS is attentive to individualism and collective identity; global and transcultural modernity and modernism; and science, ecology, and natural history.