The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead (English) Paperback Bo

Description: The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the worlds most significant surrealist artists. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her fathers cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonoras death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City.Leonora was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s, a founding member of the Womens Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s and a woman whose reputation will survive not only as a muse but as a novelist and a great artist. This book is the extraordinary story of Leonora Carringtons life, and of the friendship between two women, related by blood but previously unknown to one another, whose encounters were to change both their lives. Flap A funny, touching account of Joanna Moorheads unexpected friendship with the wildly imaginative painter and writer who happened to be her long-lost cousin . . . She is lucky to have found such a memorialist Peter Conrad, Obesrver Leonora Carrington was the last surviving member of the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. A prodigious painter and writer, lover of Max Ernst, friend of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro, Lee Miller, Peggy Guggenheim and many more, she eventually fled war-torn Europe to become part of the art scene in New York; and from there journeyed to Mexico where she befriended Frida Kahlo and eventually became a Mexican national treasure. But during Joanna Moorheads childhood all she knew was that there had been a wild child cousin called Prim who had fled the Lancashire family. This book is the story of Leonora Carringtons life, and of the friendship between two women. And its about surrealism as Leonora lived it: a way of approaching the world and a way of working out, if not the answers, then at least some of the questions. A charming and at times inspirational book Literary Review An intimate portrait of this wild child of surrealism Tate etc. Author Biography Joanna Moorhead writes for the Guardian. Born in Lancashire, she now lives in London. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington is her first book. Review This biography is as strange and haunting as Leonora Carringtons surrealist paintings - Sunday TimesThe Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington could easily have run to at least a hundred or so extra pages without exhausting its subject . . . a charming and at times inspirational book - Literary ReviewAn intimate portrait of this wild child of surrealism and tells her fascinating story as recounted during a series of meetings in the later stages of her life - Tate etc. Long Description In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her fathers cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonoras death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.They spent days talking and reading together, drinking tea and tequila, going for walks and to parties and eating take away pizzas or dining out in her local restaurants as Leonora told Joanna the wild and amazing truth about a life that had taken her from the suffocating existence of a debutante in London via war-torn France with her lover, Max Ernst, to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City.Leonora was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s, a founding member of the Womens Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s and a woman whose reputation will survive not only as a muse but as a novelist and a great artist. This book is the extraordinary story of Leonora Carringtons life, and of the friendship between two women, related by blood but previously unknown to one another, whose encounters were to change both their lives. Review Quote This biography is as strange and haunting as Leonora Carringtons surrealist paintings Promotional "Headline" A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the worlds most significant surrealist artists. Details ISBN0349008795 Author Joanna Moorhead Publisher Little, Brown Book Group ISBN-10 0349008795 ISBN-13 9780349008790 Format Paperback Year 2019 Imprint Virago Press Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 759.2 Pages 336 Publication Date 2019-07-31 Language English UK Release Date 2019-07-31 Illustrations two 8-page plate sections Audience General AU Release Date 2019-07-30 NZ Release Date 2019-07-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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