The Milk Of Dreams
$38.90
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2017
Summary
Leonora Carrington was a Surrealist painter, known for her dreamy visions of humans and animals. In English for the first time, The Milk of Dreams shows her fantastical writing and illustrations for children, sure to spark young imaginations.
The maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681370941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681370948 |
| Author: | Leonora Carrington |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Children's |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 146mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
“It is a book that opens the imagination… . [In The Milk of Dreams ] there are
“It is a book that opens the imagination… . [In The Milk of Dreams] there are two narratives: one is written and the other is illustrated, the two converse, one with the other, and have a strange dialogue to be discovered. This kind of story is entertaining in a way that is increasingly hard to find.” —Gabriel Weisz, son of Leonora Carrington
“Carrington is best known for her surrealist paintings and sculptures, but her idiosyncratic literary legacy is equally deserving of attention… their vivid imagery, irreverence, and surreal transformations are as provocative as they were at the time of their writing.” —Tobias Carroll, The Paris Review
“These pages have traveled in my hands for more than twenty reverent years. At last they arrive… . ” —Alejandro Jodorowsky
About The Author
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was born in Lancashire, England, to an industrialist father and an Irish mother. She was raised on fantastical folk tales told to her by her Irish nanny at her family’s estate, Crookhey Hall. Carrington would be expelled from two convent schools before enrolling in art school in Florence. She fled Europe during the Second World War and settled in Mexico, where she married the photographer Imre Weisz and had two sons. Carrington spent the rest of her life in Mexico City, moving in a circle of like-minded artists that included Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Among Carrington’s published works is a novel, The Hearing Trumpet (1976), and two collections of short stories.
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