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Leonora Carrington
One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds…
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Catriona McAra
A critical survey of Leonora Carrington's legacies in contemporary creative practice. The medium of Leonora Carrington explores why creative people, especially women, are preoccupied with making work in her legacy…
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Ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that family is saying that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is…
Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories-many newly translated from their original French and Spanish-is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds. -Carmen Maria Machado…
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The first overview in a decade of the dazzling Surrealist universe of Leonora Carrington - artist, author, occultist, feminist.
Ancient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story-Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print.
Ancient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and…
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Susan Aberth
A survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). It provides an overview of this intriguing artist’s rich body of work. It considers Carrington’s preoccupation…
An esoteric roadmap to Carrington’s feminist vision for global gender equality.
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘Ring for your maid, and when…
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In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington’s short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City…
Joanna Moorhead
An illustrated biography of the remarkable and pioneering artist Leonora Carrington, told through the houses and locations that had meaning for her and are fundamental to an understanding of her…
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This book brings together a collection of chapters that constitute a range of artistic, scholarly and creative responses to the realm of Carrington emphasizing how her work becomes a medium…
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Giulia Ingarao
An intense narrative that spans across the fundamental stations of Carrington’s life.
A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the world’s most significant surrealist artists.
The Milk of Dreams contains nine stories of the wondrous and strange that the famedsurrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington wrote and illustrated for her ownchildren, here translated from the…
Mary M Talbot, Bryan Talbot (illus.)
A new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from a neglected artist, feminist icon, and influential surrealist
The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a major twentieth-century writer and multi-media artist. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary, and artistic currents that animate her…
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Michelle Markel
From the creators of The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau comes a gorgeously illustrated picture book biography of the life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, who created some of the…
Gabriel Weisz Carrington
In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon…
A critical survey of Leonora Carrington’s legacies in contemporary creative practice. The medium of Leonora Carrington explores why creative people, especially women, are preoccupied with making work in her legacy…
Eva Starck-Ottkowitz
Diese interdisziplinare Studie beschaftigt sich mit der surrealistischen Kunstlerin Leonora Carrington und ihren Selbstdarstellungen. Die Autorin untersucht den Bezug zwischen diesen Selbstdarstellungen und ihrer Identitatsentwicklung. Hierzu zieht sie einerseits die…
Leonora Carrington,Marina Warner
Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a…
Elena Poniatowska is recognised today as one of Mexico’s greatest writers. Lilus Kikus, published in 1954, was her first book. However, it has not received the critical attention or a…
Diese interdisziplinare Masterarbeit beschaftigt sich mit der surrealistischen Kunstlerin Leonora Carrington und ihren Selbstdarstellungen. Wie diese sich auf ihre Identitatsentwicklung beziehen, sollte im Laufe der Arbeit herausgefunden werden. Hierzu wurden…
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived
The British-born artist and writer…
