Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde. Edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra. Manchester University Press, 2017 (paperback 2018).
'Feminist readings duly predominate in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra. In this collection a dozen authors set out to reinsert Carrington - against her willed marginality - into the intellectual currents of her many epochs, as an active collaborator [.] these resourceful studies draw Carrington's co-ordinates in cultural space. Eburne's inspired reading of the wraithy cloud at the centre of Grandmother Moorhead's Aromatic Kitchen (1975) connects it by winding paths to Carrington's lovely phrase in "Jezzamathatics": "an incalculable gesture of suspended astonishment."'
Lorna Scott Fox, TLS, May 2017
Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Burlington Magazine, Woman’s Art Journal.
Contents
Introduction: Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde - Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra
1 An A-Z of Leonora Carrington memories, mostly in quotes, gathered over years of visits to her home - Chloe Aridjis
2 'An allergy to collaboration': the early formation of Leonora Carrington's artistic vision - Susan L. Aberth
3 'Genealogical gestation': Leonora Carrington between modernism and art history - Ara H. Merjian
4 Experience and knowledge in Down Below - Natalya Lusty
5 Dissecting The Holy Oily Body: Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and El Santo Cuerpo Grasoso - Tara Plunkett
6 'A language buried at the back of time': The Stone Door and poststructuralist feminism - Anna Watz
7 Losing one's head in the 'Children's Corner': Carrington's contributions to S.NOB in 1962 - Abigail Susik
8 Shadow children: Leonora as storyteller - Gabriel Weisz
9 Poetic wisdom: Leonora Carrington and the esoteric avant-garde - Jonathan P. Eburne
10 Carrington's sensorium - Janet Lyon
11 A nonagenarian virago: quoting 'Carrington' in contemporary practice - Catriona McAra
12 Leonora Carrington: transgressing discipline - Chloe Aridjis, Francesco Manacorda and Lauren Barnes
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