Ebook: Down Below
Author: Carrington Leonora, Warner Marina
- Tags: Art--history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Artists Architects Photographers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Women, History 20th Century, Women artists, Women artists--20th century, Women--history, Fiction, Personal Narrative, Nonfiction, Biographies, Carrington Leonora -- 1917-2011, Carrington Leonora -- 1917-2011, Women artists -- 20th century -- Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists Architects Photographers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Series: New York Review Books classics
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: New York Review Books
- City: New York
- Language: English
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"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."--;Introduction -- Down Below -- Postscript -- Note on the Text
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