Dorothea Tanning - an unusual surrealist with an unique female gaze
- Written by Victoria Carruthers, Senior lecturer, Australian Catholic University
 
Voltage (1942)Dorothea Tanning EstateWoman? All they knew for sure was that they desired her. Désir, a gigantic five-letter word.
So commented American artist Dorothea Tanning recalling her time in the surrealist milieu of New York in the 1940s.
On a New York rooftop in 1938.Dorothea Tanning EstateShe had met German artist Max Ernst one...





