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Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde

Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde

by Jonathan P. Eburne (Editor), Catriona McAra (Editor)

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    Paperback 2018

    $34.52
Synopsis

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism. The book contains nine chapters from scholars of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Carrington's works.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 30 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1526133199
ISBN 13: 9781526133199

Media Reviews
'.these resourceful studies draw Carrington's co-ordinates in cultural space.' 'Eburne's inspired reading of the wraithy cloud at the centre of Grandmother Moorhead's Aromatic Kitchen (1975) connects it by winding paths to Carrington's lovely phrase in Jezzamathatics : an incalculable gesture of suspended astonishment ' Lorna Scott Fox, TLS May 2017 'This brimming cauldron of essays affirms the continuing value of Carrington's work, with contributions from established and more recent scholars, as well as from contemporary artists including Lucy Skaer, Lynn Lu and Samantha Sweeting.' Robert Radford, The Burlington Magazine, November 2017 '.many of the contributions here offer overdue research into her wider work and interests, such as her pieces for the Mexican journal S.NOB, her writing and illustrations for children and her interest in Mexican history and Tibetan Buddhism.' Edmund Gordon, London Review of Books, November 2017 -- .
Author Bio
Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Pennsylvania State University Catriona McAra is University Curator at Leeds Arts University