中文简介：

本书是一部关于超现实主义画家利奥诺拉·卡林顿（Leonora Carrington）生活的视觉编年史，通过展示她的室内装饰、国际场所和老照片，带领读者在她所居住的许多空间中进行个人旅行。这些空间渗透并困扰着她的艺术和她认识的人，同时也反映了她对女权主义、生态学和提高生活质量的艺术等领域的兴趣。卡林顿在超现实主义的历史中被认为是先锋之一，并挑战了她那个时代的传统。她放弃了家庭、社会和英国，接受新的体验，与欧洲和美国的艺术家们接触，并形成了她自己独特的艺术风格。

从兰开夏郡到伦敦，从康沃尔郡到法国和西班牙，再到墨西哥、纽约，最后回到墨西哥，每一个地方和室内都在她的记忆中留下了痕迹，这些记忆在她的绘画和著作中得到了表达和回应，尽管有时是几十年后。据卡林顿所说，房子其实就是身体，“我们把自己与墙壁、屋顶和物体联系在一起，就像我们挂在我们的肝脏、骨骼、肉体和血流上。”

英文简介：

An evocative visual chronicle on the life of Leonora Carrington as seen through interiors, international locations and vintage photographs, this book leads the reader on a personal journey through the many spaces she inhabited and which infused and haunted her art and the people she knew.

Long underrated, Carrington is now considered as one of the vanguard, not only in histories of women artists but also Surrealism; her interests – feminism, ecology and life-enhancing art – are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society and England to embrace new experiences and mix with artists in Europe and America, and to forge her own unique artistic style.

From Lancashire to London, Cornwall to France and Spain, then to Mexico, New York and finally back to Mexico, each place and interior became etched in her memory – whether her grandmother's kitchen with its giant stove, Parisian cafés, a rural French hideaway, the sanatorium in Santander or her Mexican sanctuary – only to be echoed, sometimes decades later, in her paintings and writings. 'Houses are really bodies,' she wrote in her novella The Hearing Trumpet (1974), 'We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and blood streams.'