The dance of moon and sun : Ithell Colquhoun, British women and surrealism / edited by Judith Noble, Tilly Craig and Victoria Ferentinou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Noble, Judith (Writer on art), editor.

Craig, Tilly, editor.

Ferentinou, Victoria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colquhoun, Ithell, 1906-1988--Themes, motives.

Colquhoun, Ithell.

Colquhoun, Ithell, 1906-1988--History and criticism.

Surrealism--History--20th century.

Surrealism.

Women artists--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women artists.

Surrealist artists--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Surrealist artists.

Physical Description:

254 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Dance of moon & sun

Place of Publication:

Somerset, UK : Fulgur Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe's 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation--followed by Fulgur's 2016 publication Decad of Intelligence, the Tate's 2019 acquisition of more than 5,000 Colquhoun works and Amy Hale's 2020 biography. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, Colquhoun's drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy."-- supplied by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Frances Colquhoun

Introduction: Retracing the Lost Female Surrealists / Judith Noble, Tilly Craig and Victoria Ferentinou

'A poet in words, collages, paintings and constructions': Authorship and Agency in Ithell Colquhoun's Creative Trajectories / Victoria Ferentinou

The Surrealist Phantasmagorias of Ithell Colquhoun / Tifaine Bachet

'A wordless, thoughtless vacuum': Ithell Colquhoun's Drawing Practices / Isabel Seligman

Fashioning the Marvellous: Dressing-Up Practices as Self-Empowerment in the Cases of Leonor Fini and Leonora Carrington / Andrea Kollnitz

Stella Snead: Spectacular Phenomena / Terri Geis

Sun, Stone and Oak: The Celtic World of Ithell Colquhoun / Amy Hale

An Interview with Jo O'Cleirgh / Tilly Craig

The 'Ancient Scent' Project: Art, Magic, Ithell Colquhoun and an Alchemical Experiment in a Cornish Valley / Steve Patterson

Ithell Colquhoun's Bequest to the National Trust / Richard Shillitoe

Seeking the Marvellous: Stone, Water and Moon / Jesse Bransford,.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781399936484

1399936484

OCLC:

1367999231