Recent Publications

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Victoria Carruthers of the School of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney has just published an essay entitled “Dorothea Tanning and Her Gothic Imagination” in the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas (Vol. 5, no. 1, 2011, pp. 134-158).  Drawing on her extensive interviews with the artist, the author explores the influence of gothic literature on Dorothea Tanning's work.
 

Coming to That: Poems

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Dorothea Tanning's second book of poems, Coming to That, was published in 2011 by Graywolf Press.  The title is taken from this poem, written in 2005:
 

"If it comes to that," he said, "there'll be no
preventing it,"
his voice almost a whisper. Had I got it right,
hearing him?
"If it comes to that" is what he said, and,
as if talking
to himself, went on about how there'd be no
preventing it.
He had come to that conclusion in his long
finality of
coming to that, whatever that was it might
come to before
not being prevented—and as if such a thing
were for him
the unthinkable, and would prevail, if it
came to that.

And while listening more closely now to
what he said,
I realized if no one paid him heed it would
be as if he
hadn't said it—if it came to that—and would
then not be
prevented from falling to forces known to
care little for
what he said, even when they heard it, their
being wily
and forceful enough to make sure it would
come to that.

Exhibitions on View

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"Alice in Wonderland," Tate Liverpool, through January 29, 2012, featuring Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943).

Opening soon: "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 29 – May 6, 2012.

View Galleries of past exhibitions. 

artnet Monograph

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artnet.com has added Dorothea Tanning to the roster of artists in its online Monographs series.  Created in close collaboration with The Dorothea Tanning Collection and Archive, the Dorothea Tanning Catalogue is a free online educational resource, featuring both images and research materials.