Leonora Carrington: The Milk of Dreams, Gebunden
The Milk of Dreams
- Publisher:
- Random House LLC US, 05/2017
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681370941
- Item number:
- 4137955
- Volume:
- 48 Pages
- other:
- illustrations
- Ausgabe:
- Main
- Altersempfehlung:
- 6 - 9 Jahre
- Weight:
- 238 g
- Format:
- 223 x 147 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 16.5.2017
- Series:
- NYR Children's Collection
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for children
The maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and ferocious vegetation while she told fabulous and funny tales. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that Carrington called The Milk of Dreams .
John, who has wings for ears, Humbert the Beautiful, an insufferable kid who befriends a crocodile and grows more insufferable yet, and the awesome Janzamajoria are all to be encountered in The Milk of Dreams, a book that is as unlikely, outrageous, and dreamy as dreams themselves.
Biography
Leonora Carrington, geb. 1917 in England, lernte in den Dreißigerjahren in Paris Max Ernst kennen, mit dem sie bis 1940 zusammenlebte. In Paris Kontakt mit André Breton und Joan Miró, Ausstellungen surrealistischer Malerei in Amsterdam und Paris, erste Veröffentlichungen ihrer Geschichten. 1940 Flucht in die USA und 1942 nach Mexiko, wo sie noch heute lebt.
