Author: Tanning, DorotheaAmerican Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic oeuvres. This catalogue highlights Tanning’s works created between the 1950s and ’90s, and traces her stylistic arc over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist’s practice. Tanning’s work pioneers a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today.Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning’s 1986 essay 'To Paint', a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalogue takes its title from the last line of this text.ISBN 9781947232983. Kasmin Gallery. hb. 84 pages. 31 colour, 1 b/w ills. 28 x 23 cm.available
