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Carrington: A Life
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ISBN10: 039331328X
ISBN13: 9780393313284
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 1 1995
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393313284
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 1 1995
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.09 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Here is an absorbing biography of the English artist Dora Carrington, who called herself simply Carrington. She was a woman who made a vivid impression on those she met--she was portrayed (or caricatured), for example, in novels by Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. Hopelessly in love with the noted writer Lytton Strachey, she achieved notoriety by killing herself shortly after his death. A talented painter, living a bohemian life, Carrington was torn by conflicts as an artist and a woman, including the shrewd and inquisitive Bloomsbury group. Carrington's paintings, however, reveal much of her remarkable and original cast of mind, and since her death her reputation as an artist has grown steadily. Her work is new represented in major collections worldwide.
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