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Down Below

Af: Marina Warner, Leonora Carrington Engelsk Paperback

Down Below

Af: Marina Warner, Leonora Carrington Engelsk Paperback
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A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism''s most compelling figures

In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. 

In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.

This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
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A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism''s most compelling figures

In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. 

In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.

This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9781681370606
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1681370603
Kategori: Selvbiografier: kunst og underholdning
Udg. Dato: 18 apr 2017
Længde: 9mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 204mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 18 apr 2017
Forfatter(e): Marina Warner, Leonora Carrington
Forfatter(e) Marina Warner, Leonora Carrington

Kategori Selvbiografier: kunst og underholdning

ISBN-13 9781681370606

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 96

Udgave

Længde 9mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 204mm

Udg. Dato 18 apr 2017

Oplagsdato 18 apr 2017

Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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