Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches her as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism.
This publication brings together a combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. It reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and a range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work.