Includes biography of the artist. Curators: Stefan van Raay, Tere Arcq, Carlos Martin. "Translators, Rodrigo Crespo (Danish to Spanish), Josephine Watson (Spanish to English)"--Page 308. Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306). Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid, 11 February - 7 May 2023; previously at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 17 September 2022 - 15 January 2023.
Contents:
"I will wait for you in Estremadura." Place and self-portrait of the artist as a young woman / Carlos Martin -- Leonora Carrington's heroines: From fairy tales to the white goddess / Tere Arcq -- 'I can be anything.' Humour, witchcraft and ecocriticism in Leonora Carrington / Naja Rasmussen -- Leonora Carrington: Significant others [1936-1948] / Stefan van Raay -- Catalogue -- Leonora Carrington: Biographical notes / Irene Nunez Gonzalez
Summary:
"The first overview in a decade of the dazzling Surrealist universe of Leonora Carrington--artist, author, occultist, feminist. In recent years, the art and fiction of Surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington have received much mainstream recognition, but--until now--there has been no authoritative overview of her work. Divided into 10 sections, Revelation introduces Carrington's singular artistic universe, displaying an extensive array of her wide-ranging creations (including paintings, drawings and tapestries) and fusing a chronological narrative of her life with a study of the most prominent themes in her work--from her training and early influences in England and Florence to her contact with the Surrealists in Paris, through her time in Saint-Martin-d'Ardeche, her traumatic experiences in Spain, her immigration to New York and her new homeland in Mexico. Punctuating the reproductions are archival materials, book excerpts and documentary photographs"--Amazon.com.
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