Dorothea Tanning is the third artist I discovered in this paper-doll of a writing project I took on back in the early 2000s. Just as I discovered Leonora Carrington’s art via her fiction, and then Remedios varo via a biography of Carrington, I found Dorothea Tanning by way of her relationship with Carrington’s former lover, the famous surrealist Max Ernst, who left his wife Peggy Guggenheim for Tanning. They married in a double wedding with the surrealist Man Ray and his wife Juliet Browner....
Published on August 30, 2012 14:59