Author Interview: Joanna Moorhead's "Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington"
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Author Interview: Joanna Moorhead's "Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington"

B1IntermediateNovember 13, 202339 min

Hello, listeners! I’ve got a special surprise for you this week. I’ve been waiting to share this amazing conversation that I enjoyed recently with expat and author Joanna Moorhead about her fantastic new biography, Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington. The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, so...

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That's what we are going to do and our technology to help Shopify. Start with the experience at Shopify.com. Hello again. Welcome to another bonus episode of Art Curious. Today, I am happy to share with you a conversation I had over the summer with Joanna Moorhead, the author of Surreal Spaces,

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The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington. The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and surrealism. The interests of this visionary. Feminism, ecology, the arcane, the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society,

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