The Crying of the Wind: Ireland - Couverture souple

Colquhoun, Ithell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0720618940 ISBN 13 : 9780720618945

Editeur : Peter Owen Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

The Crying of the Wind and The Living Stones make up British Surrealist Ithell Colquhoun's unique memoirs and travelogues, reprinted for the first time since 1957, now with an introduction by acclaimed comedian Stewart Lee. In The Crying of the Wind Colquhoun's travels in Ireland provide a fascinating and romantic key to the country's Celtic past.

The British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun recalls episodes from her travels in Ireland as a young woman turning her back on the modern world and setting out across the unruly Irish countryside. Here, among the holy wells, monasteries and tumuli, she finds a canvas on which her sensibility and animist beliefs can freely express themselves. Her style is beguiling, her voice sincere, and through her unique perceptions we discover a land that is fiercely alive and compelling. It is a place where the wind cries, the stones tell old tales and the mountains watch over the roads and those who travel on them. By intuiting the eerie magic of Ireland, Colquhoun casts her own spell. She offers up a land of myth and legend, stripped of its modern signs, at the same time offering herself to the reader in this portrait of the artist as a young woman.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

ITHELL COLQUHOUN (1906-88) was a painter and writer whose works contributed greatly to the British Surrealist movement before and after the Second World War. Colquhouns phantasmagoric landscapes, her psychically complex and penetrating portraits, hang on the walls of major galleries across the country. The daughter of a civil servant in India, Colquhoun was born in Assam in 1906, but was soon returned to England. She studied at Cheltenham Art School (1925-7) and the Slade School of Art (1927-31), after which she took studios around Europe, studying under the likes of Paul Vézelay and André Breton. In 1942 she married fellow surrealist Toni del Renzio. An acrimonious divorce in 1947 also saw Colquhoun informally separate from the surrealist movement, leaving her free to explore her interest in mysticism, the esoteric and the occult. The results of this pre-occupation are most evident in her writing, which includes the short novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) and two earlier travelogues, The Crying of the Wind (1955) and The Living Stones (1957). She died in Lamorna, Cornwall 1988.

STEWART LEE is an award-winning stand up comedian and writer with a regular column in the Guardian. Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle is currently in its fourth series on BBC2.

Présentation de l'éditeur

With an introduction by Stewart Lee.

'How I envy you if you are about to read either, or both, of Ithell Colquhoun's gnostic travelogues for the first time, for soon you, too, will be post-Colquhoun, and everything will seem ever so slightly altered.' --Stewart Lee

Ithell Colquhoun was a leading British surrealist painter and writer in the post war years. In The Crying of the Wind she recalls episodes from her travels in Ireland as a young woman, who, in a bid to escape the modern world, sets out across the unruly Irish countryside. Here among the holy wells, monasteries and tumuli, she finds a canvass on which her sensibility and animist beliefs freely express themselves. Her style is beguiling, her voice sincere and through it we discover her Ireland, alive and compelling, a place where the wind cries, the stones tell old tales and the mountains watch over the roads and travellers. By intuiting the eerie magic of Ireland, Colquhoun casts her own spell; she offers up a land of myth and legend, stripped of its modern signs, and she offers up herself, a portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0720618940
• ISBN 13: 9780720618945
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible