Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy, and the occult. Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate
The book is anchored by the homes, landscapes, and countries that defined Carrington, richly illustrated with her paintings and archival material. Moorhead’s writing is at its most gorgeously sensorial when she visits these locations for herself.
AS LEONARA CARRINGTON’S STAR continues to ascend, propelled by an explosion of exhibitions, publications, theatrical productions, and documentary films last year’s Venice Biennale was named after her children’s book, The Milk of Dreams it is gratifying to see that her work holds up under all the scrutiny. She left behind a vast oeuvre paintings, sculptures, drawings, tapestries, masks, costume and stage designs, plays, short stories, novels, and more that is so multivalent in its inspiration, inventive in its forms, and radical in its propositions that only now, a little more than a century