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Out of This World

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A gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about the fascinating life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, from Michelle Markel and Amanda Hall, the acclaimed team behind The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau.

Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper-and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real.

Leonora's parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to be an artist. In London, she discovered a group of artists called surrealists, who were stunning the world with their mysterious creations. This was the kind of art she had to make. This was the kind of person she had to be.

From life in Paris creating art alongside Max Ernst, to Mexico where she met Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Leonora's life became intertwined with powerful events and people that shaped the twentieth century.

Out of This World is the powerful, stunningly told story of Leonora Carrington, a girl who made art out of her imagination and created some of the most enigmatic and startling works of the last eighty years.

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ISBN: 9780062441096
Publication date: 7th March 2019
Author: Michelle Markel
Illustrator: Amanda Hall
Publisher: Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollins
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 40 pages
Genres: Politics, Law, Philosophy & Ethics
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women
Science
Children’s interactive and activity books and kits
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
History