Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm

Taylor & Francis

A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tannings ChasmAuthor(s): Catriona McAra\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472463449, 978-1472463449\nSynopsis\nIn A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tannings Chasm, Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning [tel]. McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship, repositioning Tannings writing at the centre of her entire creative oeuvre and focusing on a little-known short story \""Abyss,\"" a gothic-flavoured, desert adventure which Tanning worked on intermittently throughout her creative life, finally publishing it in 2004 as Chasm: A Weekend.\n\nMcAra performs a major reassessment of the visual and literary principles upon which the surrealist movement was initially founded. Combining a groundbreaking methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well.