Carrington's Letters
Author: Carrington, Dora
ISBN: 9781845951887
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 35mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Bloomsbury disrobed- Carrington's beguiling and gleeful letters take us beyond Bloomsbury into discussion about sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself
Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.
Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest minds of her day, including Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann and Maynard Keynes.
For over a decade she was the companion of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, and - stricken without him- killed herself when he died in 1932. Though she never achieved the fame her early career promised, in her determination to live life according to her own nature - especially in relation to her work and her fluid attitude to sex, gender and sexuality - she fought battles that remain familiar and urgent today.
Now, through her passionate, playful and honest letters, we can encounter the maverick artist and compelling personality afresh and in her own words.
ISBN: 9781845951887
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 35mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Bloomsbury disrobed- Carrington's beguiling and gleeful letters take us beyond Bloomsbury into discussion about sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself
Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.
Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest minds of her day, including Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann and Maynard Keynes.
For over a decade she was the companion of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, and - stricken without him- killed herself when he died in 1932. Though she never achieved the fame her early career promised, in her determination to live life according to her own nature - especially in relation to her work and her fluid attitude to sex, gender and sexuality - she fought battles that remain familiar and urgent today.
Now, through her passionate, playful and honest letters, we can encounter the maverick artist and compelling personality afresh and in her own words.
