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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Living Stones, The
Author: LEE STEWART
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2017
Imprint: PETER OWEN
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist s studio and sanctuary from the modern world. Her finely wrought and learned observations of festivals, fairs and druidic rituals, quickly establish her as the reader s gnostic guide to the county. She paints a land of ghosts, pedlars, borrowed saints and holy sites, charmed wells and crumbling megaliths, and finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture. Above all, Colquhoun connects us with the eerie, numinous beauty of the Cornish countryside, quietly insisting that we see the Cornwall she sees: an ancient land of myth and legend.
ISBN: 9780720618938
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm