Leonora Carrington - Surrealism, Alchemy and Art - Susan L. Aberth

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. Aberth / ISBN 9781848220560 / large 160-page paperback with flaps, published by Lund Humphries (UK) *** "Full of stunning colour reproductions of Carrington's visionary art, whose hybrid forms borrow from nature, culture and religion in order to take themselves beyond all three. A beautiful book"--The Sunday Telegraph "Documentary photographs and high-quality illustrations of many rarely exhibited works from private collections make this long overdue work essential for all art collections." —Choice Now available in paperback, this book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton, who responded enthusiastic