The surreal life of leonora carrington
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A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the world's most significant surrealist artists.
'A funny, touching account of Joanna Moorhead's unexpected friendship with the wildly imaginative painter and writer who happened to be her long-lost cousin . . . She is lucky to have found such a memorialist' Peter Conrad, Obesrver
Leonora Carrington was the last surviving member of the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. A prodigious painter and writer, lover of Max Ernst, friend of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Lee Miller, Peggy Guggenheim and many more, she eventually fled war-torn Europe to become part of the art scene in New York; and from there journeyed to Mexico where she befriended Frida Kahlo and eventually became a Mexican national treasure.
But during Joanna Moorhead's childhood all she knew was that there had been a wild child cousin called Prim who had fled the Lancashire family.
This book is the story of Leonora Carrington's life, and of the friendship between two women. And it's about surrealism as Leonora lived it: a way of approaching the world and a way of working out, if not the answers, then at least some of the questions.
'A charming and at times inspirational book' Literary Review
'An intimate portrait of this wild child of surrealism' Tate etc.
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.
Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonora's death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.
They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City.
Leonora was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s, a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s and a woman whose reputation will survive not only as a muse but as a novelist and a great artist. This book is the extraordinary story of Leonora Carrington's life, and of the friendship between two women, related by blood but previously unknown to one another, whose encounters were to change both their lives.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 juli 2019
Aantal pagina's: 336
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Joanna Moorhead
Hoofduitgeverij: Virago Press Ltd
Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 28 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 126 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 27 mm
Verpakking lengte: 195 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 552 g
EAN: 9780349008790