Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, Joanna Moorhead’s latest book on the pioneering surrealist painter and writer who lived from 1917 to 2011, captures a wave of fascination for surrealist women artists.
Carrington’s many selves dazzle at every turn in this evocative study of the spaces and places of the artist’s life and work. It showcases her resilience, zest, intellectual curiosity and defiant pursuit of personal autonomy and uncompromising artistic authenticity.
Moorhead, whose father was Carrington’s cousin, offers an immersive reading of each place Carrington lived in, capturing their distinct atmospheres and registering the passage of time. She also detects the spirit of each place in Carrington’s surrealist landscape paintings, where the real and the fantastic meet mesmerically.
