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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 Leonora Carrington (1917â2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionaryâfeminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everythingâare now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in Europe and the Americas. In this evocative illustrated biography, writer and journalist Joanna Moorhead traces her cousin's footsteps, exploring the artist's life, loves, friendships, and work.Leading readers on a personal journey across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Mexico, Surreal Spaces describes the places and experiences that would become etched in Carrington's memory and be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her art and writingâwhether her grandmother's kitchen with its giant stove; a remote Cornish hideaway where she holidayed with Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray; the Left Bank of Paris; an asylum in Santander, Spain; New York, where she lived among other European exiles; or Mexico City, her final sanctuary. "Houses are really bodies, " Carrington wrote in her novella The Hearing Trumpet. "We connect ourselves with walls, roofs and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams."Featuring photographs, drawings, and paintings of the spaces that so richly influenced Carrington's work, Surreal Spaces is an intimate and vivid portrait of a fascinating artist.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Beginnings 1917â1927
- 2 Adolescence 1927â1935
- 3 Debutante and Art Student 1935â1937
- 4 Cornwall 1937
- 5 Paris 1937â1938
- 6 Saint-Martin-dâArdèche 1938â1940
- 7 Santander and Lisbon 1940â1941
- 8 New York 1941â1942
- 9 Mexico 1942â1968
- 10 New York and Chicago 1968â1992
- 11 Mexico City 1992âthe present
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index