404 pp. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates of Tanning's paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Texts by Jean Christophe Bailly and Robert Morgan, along with pieces by John Cage and James Merrill. Full orange cloth, spine lettered in black, with illustrated dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. First Edition.
Inscribed on a preliminary page, "for Adrienne Rich with admiration, Dorothea Tanning January 17, 1997." The following year Rich's poem "Pictor mysteriosa (Burnt Umbrage)" was written to title and accompany Tanning's painting in the book, Another Language of Flowers (Braziller, 1998). Inscribed association copy of this major monograph about Tanning: painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet.
