R.I.P. Dorothea Tanning
UTTERLY POSSESSING
by Jerry Saltz
Dorothea Tanning died on Jan. 31, 2012, at the age of 101, and pieces of history died with her. Artist, poet, wife of
Max Ernst from 1946 until he died in 1976, and (along with
Frida Kahlo,
Leonora Carrington,
Kay Sage,
Lee Miller,
Maya Deren,
Remedios Varo and
Leonor Fini) one of a group of great women Surrealists, she was at the center of a movement that was a vicious mill for women. Among the surrealists, females -- while "allowed" to be artists -- were often also relegated to the sidelines of neglected or beset mistresses, muses and madwomen.
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