
The Living Stones
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.
- Undertitel
- Cornwall
- Författare
- Ithell Colquhoun
- ISBN
- 9780720618938
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 236 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2017-03-01
- Förlag
- Peter Owen Publishers
- Sidor
- 200
