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GOOSE OF HERMOGENES
Ithell Colquhoun was a leading British surrealist artist and writer, whose love of the esoteric and the occult had a profound influence on her work. No where is this more apparent than in the weird and wonderful alchemical novel Goose of Hermogenes.
This new hardback edition features Colquhoun's watercolour illustrations for the novel and contains a previously missing chapter
A young nameless woman must escape her uncle's island when his sinister attentions fall upon an heirloom a priceless jewel in her possession that may be useful in his relentless attempts to conquer death by black magic.
Considered almost impenetrable by the novel's original editor, Muriel Spark, Goose of Hermogenes has since acquired a legendary status as a work of surrealist fiction. Illustrated with Colquhoun's beautiful alchemical paintings, and contextualised by biographer Richard Shillitoe, this new edition can be fully appreciated for its intoxicating strangeness.
ITHELL COLQUHOUN (190688) was a painter and writer whose works contributed greatly to the British Surrealist movement before and after the Second World War. Colquhoun's phantasmagoric landscapes, her psychically complex and penetrating portraits, hang on the walls of major galleries across the country.
The daughter of a civil servant in India, Colquhoun was born in Assam but was soon returned to England. She studied at Cheltenham Art School and the Slade School of Art, after which she took studios around Europe, studying under the likes of Paul Vézelay and André Breton.
In 1942 she married fellow surrealist Toni del Renzio. An acrimonious divorce in 1947 also saw Colquhoun informally separate from the Surrealist movement, leaving her free to explore her interest in mysticism, the esoteric and the occult. The results of this preoccupation are most evident in her writing, which includes the short novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) and two earlier travelogues, The Crying of the Wind (1955) and The Living Stones (1957). She died in Lamorna, Cornwall.
This new hardback edition features Colquhoun's watercolour illustrations for the novel and contains a previously missing chapter
A young nameless woman must escape her uncle's island when his sinister attentions fall upon an heirloom a priceless jewel in her possession that may be useful in his relentless attempts to conquer death by black magic.
Considered almost impenetrable by the novel's original editor, Muriel Spark, Goose of Hermogenes has since acquired a legendary status as a work of surrealist fiction. Illustrated with Colquhoun's beautiful alchemical paintings, and contextualised by biographer Richard Shillitoe, this new edition can be fully appreciated for its intoxicating strangeness.
ITHELL COLQUHOUN (190688) was a painter and writer whose works contributed greatly to the British Surrealist movement before and after the Second World War. Colquhoun's phantasmagoric landscapes, her psychically complex and penetrating portraits, hang on the walls of major galleries across the country.
The daughter of a civil servant in India, Colquhoun was born in Assam but was soon returned to England. She studied at Cheltenham Art School and the Slade School of Art, after which she took studios around Europe, studying under the likes of Paul Vézelay and André Breton.
In 1942 she married fellow surrealist Toni del Renzio. An acrimonious divorce in 1947 also saw Colquhoun informally separate from the Surrealist movement, leaving her free to explore her interest in mysticism, the esoteric and the occult. The results of this preoccupation are most evident in her writing, which includes the short novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) and two earlier travelogues, The Crying of the Wind (1955) and The Living Stones (1957). She died in Lamorna, Cornwall.
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Published 2018-02-01 by Peter Owen |