| The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington By Leonora Carrington Dorothy Project, 232 pp., $16 Down Below By Leonora Carrington New York Review of Books, 112 pp., $14 The Milk of Dreams By Leonora Carrington New York Review of Books, 56 pp., $15.95 |
April 6, 2017, marked the centennial of artist and writer Leonora Carrington’s birth. A British-born textile heiress who ran away from her parents, her inheritance, and bourgeois conformity to join the Surrealist carnival in Paris at the age of twenty, Carrington proceeded, like many iconoclastic Surrealist women, to build a legendary life around her own imagination. Although American biographers, art galleries, and museum curators have been raising Carrington’s public profile since the mid-1980s, she only continues to attract curiosity and admiration in the 21st century. Continue reading “The Wildly Surrealist Stories of Leonora Carrington”