Leonora Carrington reading list

Posted by rhiandavies - Friday, 17 May 2024

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A Leonora Carrington painting just sold for a record-breaking £22.5m, setting a new high for British-born female artists! 🏆
If you’re a fan of her surrealist work or curious about her influence on art, check out our selection of academic books on Carrington’s work and life.

The medium of Leonora Carrington

£19.99

Catriona McAra

A critical survey of Leonora Carrington's legacies in contemporary creative practice. The medium of Leonora Carrington explores why creative people, especially women, are preoccupied with making work in her legacy today.

The invisible painting

£12.99

Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Jonathan P. Eburne

In this memoir, Gabriel Weisz Carrington, son of the renowned Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother and declare her not an icon or a goddess but, first and foremost, an artist.

Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde

£30.00

Jonathan P. Eburne, Catriona McAra

The first comprehensive examination of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), a major twentieth-century writer and multi-media artist. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary, and artistic currents that animate her relationships with avant-garde movements throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Surrealist women's writing

£14.99

Anna Watz

Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

Surrealism and film after 1945

£25.00

Kristoffer Noheden, Abigail Susik

Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a major force in postwar cinema.

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