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A review by ratgrrrl
Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary M. Talbot
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
A truly remarkable and beautiful book about a remarkable and beautiful soul.
I have become a bit obsessed with Leonara Carrington since reading The Hearing Trumpet and falling in love with her art and writing, and this absolutely blew me away.
I don't know enough about her life to know how true an account of her life this is, but it makes sense with the things I have come across.
Her life truly was a magical, brutal, heartbreaking gauntlet and this graphic novel captures it and her art spectacularly!
I absolutely hated The Last Days of New Paris for using Surrealism without engaging with or understanding it. In contrast, while the narrative is a rather traditional biography, the use of Carrington and others Surrealist Imagery and style to. convey emotion and the strangeness of her life is pretty much perfect!
Genuinely made me incredibly happy and absolutely made me cry. Wonderful stuff!
I have become a bit obsessed with Leonara Carrington since reading The Hearing Trumpet and falling in love with her art and writing, and this absolutely blew me away.
I don't know enough about her life to know how true an account of her life this is, but it makes sense with the things I have come across.
Her life truly was a magical, brutal, heartbreaking gauntlet and this graphic novel captures it and her art spectacularly!
I absolutely hated The Last Days of New Paris for using Surrealism without engaging with or understanding it. In contrast, while the narrative is a rather traditional biography, the use of Carrington and others Surrealist Imagery and style to. convey emotion and the strangeness of her life is pretty much perfect!
Genuinely made me incredibly happy and absolutely made me cry. Wonderful stuff!