Art and Becoming-Animal: Reconceptualizing the Animal Imagery in Dorothea Tanning's Post-1955 Paintings

In 1955, American artist Dorothea Tanning abandoned her figurative Surrealist renderings of dream-like scenarios in favor of a complexly abstract and fragmented style of painting. With few exceptions, the ways in which Tanning’s later works function independently of her earlier paintings tends to be...

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Main Author: Karam, Samantha
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2013
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/470
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1469&context=etd