LEONORA CARRINGTON

. This book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist L. Carrington. Carrington burst onto the Surrealis t scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English famil y by running away to Paris with her lover M. Ernst. She was immediately championed by A. Breton, who responded enthusiastically to h er fantastical, dark and satirical writing style and her interest in fairy tales and the occult. Her stories were included in Surrea list p...[Llegir més]