Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hege[...]

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 Leon[...]

Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short ficti[...]

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 relationships with avant-garde movements throughout the Wes[...]

Leonora Carrington developed an iconography of myth, occultism and alchemy that has resonated strongly with younger artists over the past decade and a half. Incredibly gifted as a technician, Carrington was also possessed of a wild imagination, which she realized with great precision in her canvases[...]

Leonora Carrington föddes 1917 i nordvästra England. Hon kom 1936 till London för att studera vid Amedée Ozenfants målarskola, fortsatte till Paris och blev verksam inom surrealismen. Hon debuterade som författare på franska 1938 med novellsamlingen La Dame Ovale, illustrerad av Max Ernst, so[...]

Som 20-åring rymde Leonora Carrington från England tillsammans med den 26 år äldre surrealistkonst­nären Max Ernst. Deras lika tumult­artade som inspirerande liv på den franska landsbygden ligger till grund för de två självbio­grafiska berättel­serna i I underjorden.

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