Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
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Alyce Mahon’s new book Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World offers a panoramic, well-researched view of the artist’s life and work. Mahon grounds Tanning’s biography in womanhood — how Tanning faced immense pressure and beat odds, emerging as a standout artist on her own, despite often being attached to her husband, Max Ernst. Unfortunately, the work is overly ambitious and too academic, and fractures under this load. Although it offers moments of interesting, new insight, the…
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