leonora carrington – Cannonball Read 17

The Mad Genius

Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary M. Talbot

May 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary M. Talbot and illustrated by Bryan Talbot I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse… I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist. — Leonora Carrington How reliable is the narrator? How honest is Carrington’s story? Was her madness her greatness or greatness her madness? The complex life of this artist unfolds in a mix of beauty, ugly and something in-between. A product of her time, a rebel of it […]

And Now For Something Completely Bonkers

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

March 30, 2024 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

Well, this is certainly one hot mess of a novelette, and it is deliciously illustrated in sketchy (in all meanings of the word) drawings by the novelist herself, a surrealistic painter. The heroine, nonagenarian vegetarian Marian Leatherby, starts off as quite deaf, but is then gifted with an old school hearing trumpet that lets her hear everything. But seemingly no one notices it, even though in the drawings it looms over her head like a conning tower. She has been placed by her children in […]

I am terribly afraid of bats.

The Collected Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

December 17, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There’s something I love about surrealism that I don’t love about fables (or more so “modern fables”). I look at surrealism in terms of looking at the world in a flattened sense and then trying to represent that world as you see it without the assumptions and protections and stability of context. And in this collection of short fiction by the writer and painter Leonora Carrington (of both Mexico and the Uk) we get that kind of picture painted for us here. And so of […]

“What do you do with a girl like Leonora”?

Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington by Michelle Markel

August 20, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington could be called “What do you do with a girl like Leonora”? A proper young lady she was not (despite her parents’ wishes). Leonora Carrington wanted to do the unthinkable: she wanted to be an artist. Proper English people did not become scandalous artists, let alone proper young English ladies. Thankfully Carrington was not proper (as mentioned above). She painted on walls, paper and created the most imaginative, non-traditional pieces of art. Michelle Markel creates […]

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

February 19, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I went into this novel cold, and I was all the better for it. So if the following short premise sounds good to you, stop reading and find this novel and go forth. An older British woman languishing in the home of her useless son in Spain is gifted an encrusted hearing trumpet that better allows her to hear and comprehend the conversations in the world around her. Having been mistaken for senile, when her hard of hearing is the better explanation, she begins to […]

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