Out of This World : The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington
Author(s): Michelle Markel
A gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about the fascinating life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, from Michelle Markel and Amanda Hall, the acclaimed team behind The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau.
Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper—and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real.
Leonora’s parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to be an artist. In London, she discovered a group of artists called surrealists, who were stunning the world with their mysterious creations. This was the kind of art she had to make. This was the kind of person she had to be.
From life in Paris creating art alongside Max Ernst, to Mexico where she met Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Leonora’s life became intertwined with powerful events and people that shaped the twentieth century.
Out of This World is the powerful, stunningly told story of Leonora Carrington, a girl who made art out of her imagination and created some of the most enigmatic and startling works of the last eighty years.
Review(s):
“Spectral fairies, soaring women, an infant in a luminous crescent-moon cradle, a human-faced hyena—these are a few of the wondrous images filling the pages of this colorful picture-book biography of surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.”
“A striking picture book biography.”
“Markel’s telling—evocative and poetic—feels enchanted… [her] gorgeous description of Carrington’s paintings is the perfect summation of the extraordinariness found in all females.”
“An empowering introduction that demands parallel examination of Carrington’s own work.”
“A reminder that rebellion comes in different forms.”
“A glorious look at a woman artist who did exactly what she wanted to do at a time when few were able to do so.”
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ISBN: 9780062441096