An oracular Surrealism: the debut presentation of Leonora Carrington's recently discovered tarot deckThe British-born artist Leonora Carrington is one of the more fascinating figures to emerge from the Surrealist movement. As both a writer and paint…
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniousl…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things…
'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of in…
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trum…
A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington--later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarmin…
Som 20-åring rymde Leonora Carrington från England tillsammans med den 26 år äldre surrealistkonstnären Max Ernst. Deras lika tumultartade som inspirerande liv på den franska landsbygden ligger till grund för de två självbiografiska berättelsern…
In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for children The maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storytel…
Max Ernst (1891?1976) var en av surrealismens och 1900-talets mest rastlöst experimenterande konstnärer. Men Ernst nöjde sig inte med att ständigt förnya bildkonsten ? han skrev också, bland annat lyrik. Dikterna och collagen i Paramyter kom till i…
Elena Poniatowska is recognised today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. 'Lilus Kikus,' published in 1954, was her first book. However, it was labelled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and th…
”Set i dette lys er klassikeren Hørerøret en efterkrigs-, efternuklear vision, der runger langt ind i vores globalt opvarmede tidsalder. En genudgivelse kunne ikke være kommet på et bedre tidspunkt … En af det 20. århundredes mest origi…
