Surreal Spaces - The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington - Joanna Moorhead

Surreal Spaces - The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead / ISBN 9780691254487 / 304-page hardback published in 2023 by Princeton *** “Enjoyable and important. . . . Moorhead recounts Carrington’s life as if a collection of stories, each one building to produce a memorable impression of the eccentric and wonderful Leonora Carrington.”—Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men 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 The 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 s