During childhood, Joanna Moorhead heard about a wild cousin called Prin who had fled their suffocatingly respectable family. When Joanna travelled to Mexico to find her, it was the start of a life-changing friendship, for her relative was none other than Leonora Carrington, the last surviving Surrealist. This book tells how, over tea and tequila, Leonora recalled her extraordinary life, her relationship with Max Ernst, her incarceration in an asylum, and her friendships with Picasso, Dalí and Frida Kahlo.

Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

Moorhead, Joanna

Virago

Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Surreal Spaces The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington /anglais

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

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\nThe British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are 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.\nLeading 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 writing—whether 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.”\nFeaturing 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.

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington

Humor & Entertainment

Princeton University Press

This guide provides baby-care information, from the moment after birth to the first day of school. It discusses tests, immunizations and diet and aims to teach readers to recognize problems instantly, from allergic reactions to the first signs of teething.

Kiss Guide to Babycare

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

The ideal guide for the first-time mother who wants to give her baby (and herself) all the benefits of breastfeeding, the book covers every aspect of feeding and weaning, from good positioning, milk production, and expressing milk, to burping and gauging when baby is full. Much thought and helpful advice is also given to maintaining breast health, bonding, and- if you're a new mother- taking good care of yourself.

Breastfeeding (Johnson's Everyday Babycare)

DK Pub.

"Surreal Friends" brings together for the first time the work of three women Surrealist artists, friends in exile in Mexico in the 1940s: British painter Leonora Carrington, Spanish painter Remedios Varo and Hungarian photographer Kati Horna. Leonora Carrington fled to Mexico in the 1940s when her love affair with Max Ernst was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. In Mexico City she found herself liberated from her English upper-class background and from the expectations of the older male Surrealists of whose circle she had been a part in Paris and New York. She made new friendships - with Varo and Horna especially, but also with other refugees from war-torn Europe and with Mexican artists and writers including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Octavio Paz. Remedios Varo arrived in Mexico City in 1941, having fled Nazi-occupied Paris with her lover, the French Surrealist poet Benjamin Peret. Until her early death in 1963, she produced a wealth of paintings inspired by the spirit and freedom of Mexico, in which magic, humour and illusion feature strongly. Kati Horna was born in Hungary and moved to Paris to pursue a career as a photographer. With her husband Jose Horna she documented the Spanish Civil War, before moving with him to Mexico City in 1939. In Mexico she became a photojournalist for various newspapers and also took on more personal photography projects, much of this work suffused with a Surrealist thread. For all three women, Mexico offered freedom to explore their art in ways that had not been possible in Europe. "Surreal Friends" tells the fascinating story of their artistic friendship.

Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna

Raay, Mr Stefan Van

Arcq, Teresa

Lund Humphries

Inspired

Biographies & Memoirs

Alive Publishing

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