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The Art of Dora Carrington (Historical Interest) [Paperback]

Jane Hill (Author), Michael Holroyd (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (28 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 071365726X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713657265
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 21.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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At the age of 38, Dora Carrington (1893-1932) committed suicide, unable to contemplate living without her companion, Lytton Strachey, who had died a few weeks before. The association with Lytton and his Bloomsbury friends, combined with her own modesty have tended to overshadow Carrington's contribution to modern British painting. This book aims to redress the balance by looking at the immense range of her work: portraits, landscapes, glass paintings, letter illustrations and decorative work.

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This is not only the Art of Dora Carrington, as the title might let you to believe. It is also a compelling portrait of Dora Carrington as an autobiographical artist who painted the people and places around her she loved, and therefore The Author Jane Hill has added photos and stories to assist the reader in the understanding of Carrington as a painter and person.

If the art critics and the art world had a more sensitive eye to original art when the artist was still alive, she might have had an anchor to go on painting - beyond the death of her beloved Lytton , but it is the eternal story, that the art critics and the art world think they know what art is and what art should be like, and they do seldom applaud before it is too late for the artist to enjoy the fruits of really original and earnest work made in its hay day.

Dora Carrington should have been applauded and praised more loudly a long time ago. We lost her before she was forty, because the world hates originality when it is a live, and loves it to bits when the person is dead. She was not the ultimate victim of her time, like Van Gogh, Modigliani etc. because she did not exhibit the art she loved the most. She got by on a small pension and less serious but decorative artwork, sold in small shops.

This book will illuminated you about Carrington’s Art, and provide means to the understanding of the fragile mind of this flamboyant artist whose original – and before her time - viewpoints on both Art, Love and Relationships gave her the title - an Eccentric. But, she really was a free spirit, trying to back out of post Victorian and Edwardian nonsense, as many artists and especially women artists tried to do with more or less success at the time.

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There seems to be so little information on this artist and her work - this book is probably one of the best sources of information on Carrington. Easy to read, it gives a good picture of the artist and her time. Good amount of photos, reproductions of paintings and the lovely drawings she illustrated her correspondence with (some paintings could be reproduced on a bigger scale).
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Quite intriguing... 28 April 2000
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Hill's The Art of Dora Carrington is quite an enjoyable read for those who would love to know details, both visual and otherwise, of this eccentric and talented woman. I first became interested in Carrington after watching the somewhat recent film of her life starring Emma Thompson. She had a convoluted and emotionally tormented life; fortunately she left behind some quite remarkable works to lend us a glimpse or two of it. Hill includes many examples of her work in color and black and white, along with photographs and letter doodles to supplement the text. Most of the book is well written--however sometimes she references paintings not included or a painting that you are not sure which she is talking about. Her comments sometimes entirely miss her previous point and organization is not its best. Despite these shortcomings, it is definitely worth the read to art historians like me, literary buffs, or people who like a good scandalous life or two, seen through the artist's eyes.
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