The Object

Escape Velocity: The Woman Who Left the World


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Leonora Carrington has never felt at home in her wealthy, conservative family. But when she meets the Surrealists in the 1930s, and runs from everything she knows, it will take everything she has to become the artist and writer she wants to be. Most importantly: her singular imagination, which reveals the world as both more magical and more haunted than most of us care to admit.
You can see her feminist take on Surrealism in this painting from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/98514/dear-diary-never-since-we-left-prague-leonora-carrington
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