Armed with Madness

ARMED WITH MADNESS

The Surreal Leonora Carrington

• Publishing Company:

  SELFMADEHERO

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  BRYAN TALBOT (ARTIST)

  MARY TALBOT (WRITER)

• Number of Pages:

  144

• Cover price:

  £ 19.99

• Publication Date:

  May 2023

• Age:

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  BIOGRAPHY,

• Summary:

  KEY NOTE

  A new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from a neglected artist, feminist icon, and influential Surrealist.

  BOOK DESCRIPTION

  Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting elite of Paris’s 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dalí, after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst. But the demons that have both haunted and inspired her work are gathering, and when the world goes mad with the outbreak of war and the Nazi invasion, Leonora’s own hold on reality collapses into a terrifying psychotic episode of her own. Eventually fleeing war-torn Europe, she emerges into a new and richly creative life in Mexico City, establishing herself as a prodigious painter, writer, and advocate of women’s rights. This new work by the acclaimed partnership of Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot celebrates the life and career of a truly remarkable woman – and artist.