The Crying of the Wind by Ithell Colquhoun

The Crying of the Wind by Ithell Colquhoun

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.

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	9780720618945
ISBN 10	0720618940
Title	The Crying of the Wind
Author	Ithell Colquhoun
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Peter Owen Publishers
Year published	2017-03-01
Number of pages	200
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