The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun
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.
Ithell Colquhoun was a painter and writer who was one of the best-known English women surrealists. A friend of Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton, she was also associated with Aleister Crowley. Her writing has been compared to that of William Blake and Walter de la Mare--the latter being a fan of her work. Richard Shillitoe is a biographer of Ithell Colquhoun and an expert on her writing and art. He runs the website www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780720618938 |
| ISBN 10 | 0720618932 |
| Title | The Living Stones |
| Author | Ithell Colquhoun |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Year published | 2017-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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