A Mexican Fairy Tale: The life and work of Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked. This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear. WORKS REFERENCED WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/ Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/ The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/ Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015) CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13 André Breton Claude Cahun Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/ LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871) Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/ Salvador Dalí HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015) Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’ Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry Ernő Goldfinger Peggy Guggenheim ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936) International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936) Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html The Kabala Frida Kahlo Edward Lear E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624 Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres Octavio Paz Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2 Beatrix Potter Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists ¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932) HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936) Diego Rivera Mary Shelley Dylan Thomas Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on Imre Weisz