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Dorothea Tanning; Tracey Emin review / From the sublime to the miserabilist

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Dorothea Tanning; Tracey Emin review / From the sublime to the miserabilist

 ‘Without precedent’: Nue Couchée, 1969-70 Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Tanning; Tracey Emin review – from the sublime to the miserabilist Tate Modern; White Cube Bermondsey, London A show full of surprises reveals Dorothea Tanning as so much more than the last surrealist, while Tracey Emin delivers a monotone lament in 100 works Laura Cumming Sunday 3 March 2019 Astartling painting in this terrific survey of the American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) shows dinner time in some conventional midwestern home. The paterfamilias, with blinding spectacles and a hideous orange tie, towers above the proceedings. His daughter is much smaller; tinier still is a cook bearing...

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