Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
By Joanna Moorhead
Thames & Hudson £30
Joanna Moorhead wrote the well-received biography of the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Now she has produced a lavishly illustrated book which revisits Carrington’s life in the context of her various homes.
The artist was in flight from a conventional upper-middle-class English childhood. Her amorous and artistic adventures took her from Morecambe Bay to Mexico City, where she lived, on and off, for 60 years.
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