In part I of Selin Genc's series 'Perilious Childhoods,' we focus on Dorothea Tanning's work 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and how Tanning reimagines the surrealist trope of the femme-enfant, imbuing her with an inherent wisdom and irrepressible curiosity for life. In the second instalment of the Perilous Childhoods series, Selin charts the tempestuous psychological evolution of the figures in Dorothea Tanning's works 'Children's Games' & 'Interieur.' Concluding the Perilous Childhoods series, she writes on Dorothea Tanning's 'Palaestra,' a work which portrays the enfant-savant in her prime.
Dorothea Tanning and Perilous Childhoods I: 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
"[W]hy should it be that children are thought of as incapable of experiencing great passions and sophisticated inner-dramas, unless they are attributed adult-like characteristics?"
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Dorothea Tanning and Perilous Childhoods II: 'Children's Games' and 'Interieur'
"The girls are engaged in a simultaneous act of revealing and severing, of exposing and being ensnared."
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Dorothea Tanning and Perilous Childhoods III: 'Palaestra'
"A world of searching, the elaboration of knowledge, on the basis of a systematic experimentation with the bodily functions, a passionate and precise interrogation of her own erotogeneity."
-Hélène Cixous
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