Leonora Carrington, Surrealism, and Initiation: Symbolic Death and Rebirth in Little Francis and Down Below

In 1940, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was incarcerated in a Spanish mental asylum, having been pronounced “incurably insane.” Down Below, an account of the incident first published in the surrealist journal VVV in 1944, acted as an important part in her recovery fr...

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Main Author: Kristoffer Noheden
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Aren Roukema 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/99276de76d0f43debf04d904c94a5937
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