📗 Libro en inglés THE LIVING STONES

Colquhoun s unique artistic vision shines through like at no time in recent history Art UK Colquhoun s time travelling survey of Cornwall s culture and history brings ghosts and dead landscapes to life all around you Stewart Lee Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed out London So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain s westernmost county a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present Sacred and beautiful wild and weird Colquhoun s Cornwall is a living landscape where every tree standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand picked from around the globe With a new introduction by Edward Parnell the PEN Ackerley shortlisted author of Ghostland and The Listeners Ithell Colquhoun 1906 1988 was born in British India and brought up in the United Kingdom She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism She began visiting Cornwa