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I thoroughly enjoyed this biography, written by Joanna Moorhead, who is actually Carrington's cousin, and thus she brings such warmth and intimacy to this portrait of the rebellious British artist who fled her wealthy family to join the Surrealists in Paris, then later made Mexico her home. What I loved most was how Moorhead doesn't just focus on Carrington's famous relationship with Max Ernst, but gives us the full sweep of her remarkable life - her art, her writing, her fierce independence, and her refusal to be defined by anyone else's expectations. Carrington comes across as brilliant, difficult, magical, and very much herself. The book captures the wildness of her imagination and her determination to live life on her own terms, right up until her death at 94. I love to read about creative women forging their own path and during a time when such behavior was considered almost brazen…
In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.
Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Journey into the Mind's Eye is a dreamy memoir that's quite unlike anything else I've read. Lesley Blanch weaves together her lifelong obsession with Russia - sparked by a mysterious figure who came to stay with her family when she was a child. She calls him 'The Traveller' and he filled her childhood with tales of the exotic East - encouraging her own eventual travels there. It's part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to a Russia that may seems more imagined than real. Blanch's prose is romantic and evocative, and she captures that peculiar longing we sometimes feel for places we've never been. It's not a straightforward read - it meanders and drifts like a conversation with a fascinating older woman over tea - but that's precisely its charm. Perfect for anyone who loves armchair travel and beautifully written nostalgia.
Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep into the romantic terrain of the mind's eye.
Part travel book, part love story, Lesley Blanch's Journey into the Mind's Eye is pure intoxication.
