Down below / Leonora Carrington ; introduction by Marina Warner.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , c1988, 2017Description: xxxvii, 69 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781681370606 (softcover)
- 92 CAR
- PR6053.A6965 A6 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 92 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Material retirado/oculto del Opac | 026566 |
Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
In 1937 Leonora Carringtonlater to become one of the twentieth centurys great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wildwas a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became 'the mirror of the earth'of all worlds in a hostile universeand she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach 'of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,' she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation. This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctors sadistic course of treatment.--Provided by the publisher.
English
There are no comments on this title.