The Living Stones

Ithell Colquhoun

ISBN 10: 0720618932 / ISBN 13: 9780720618938

Edité par Peter Owen, 2018

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Observations of Cornwall by surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun. Introduction by Stewart Lee.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Living Stones
• Éditeur: Peter Owen
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0720618932
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780720618938
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist s studio and sanctuary from the modern world. Her finely wrought and learned observations of festivals, fairs and druidic rituals, quickly establish her as the reader s gnostic guide to the county. She paints a land of ghosts, pedlars, borrowed saints and holy sites, charmed wells and crumbling megaliths, and finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture. Above all, Colquhoun connects us with the eerie, numinous beauty of the Cornish countryside, quietly insisting that we see the Cornwall she sees: an ancient land of myth and legend.

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.