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'Ardèche, 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.
Leonora Carrington (19172011) was a British-born artist, Surrealist painter and novelist, famed for her narrative scenes inhabited by mystical figures participating in curious rituals. After fleeing Europe during World War II, she lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, where she was a founding member of the women's liberation movement.
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British-born Surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington was overshadowed by her male counterparts in her lifetime, but is currently on an ever-increasing uptick in international renown. Together with Remedios Varo, she became one of the founding members of the Mexican women's liberation movement, a proponent of psychic and sexual freedom, and a student of esoteric practices like Tibetan Buddhism, Kabbalah, ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian magic, Celtic mythology, witchcraft, astrology and the Tarot. She is credited with feminizing Surrealism. .
A classic, fully illustrated, much-needed, 310-page exhibition catalog, published for the first large-scale, comprehensive retrospective exhibition in mainland Europe. Includes approximately 150 works, from paintings to drawings to tapestries-plus lots of archival photos and documents. .
Carrington's work will be on view in Beyond Dreams: Surrealism and its Manifestations, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, May 13August 20, 2023. Note related upcoming Art Institute of Chicago show (JulyNov): Remedios Varo: Science Fictions.
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In 2015, Google honored Carrington with a Doodle, and the 2022 Venice Biennale was dedicated to her and named after one of her books, The Milk of Dreams.
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