In A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanningrsquo;s Chasm; Catriona McAra offers the first critical study of the literary work of the celebrated American painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning (1910ndash;2012). McAra fills a major gap in the scholarship; repositioning Tanningrsquo;s 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.McAra 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methodological approach with reference to cultural theory and feminist aesthetics as well as Tanningrsquo;s unpublished journals and notes; McAra reveals Tanning as a key player in contemporary art practice as well as in the historical surrealist milieu.
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