Carrington, Leonora  (, 1917-2011) <br/><br/>
Down below 
/ Leonora Carrington ; introduction by Marina Warner. 
 - New York  : New York Review Books  , c1988, 2017 
 - xxxvii, 69 pages  : illustrations  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was 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 universe—and 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 doctor’s sadistic course of treatment.--Provided by the publisher. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781681370606 (softcover) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mental health<br/>Women Artists<br/>Artists----Biography<br/>Autobiography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6053.A6965  / A6 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 CAR