Ithell Colquhoun - Genius of the Fern Loved Gully - Amy Hale

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale / ISBN 9781907222863 / paperback with flaps, about 6.5 x 9.5 / Strange Attractor Press (UK) A beautiful book and intro to a fascinating artist. *** The first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, This book offers the first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, situating her art within the magical contexts that shaped her imaginative life and work. After decades of neglect, Colquhoun's unique vision and hermetic life have become an object of great renewed interest, both for artists and for historians of magic. Although her paintings are represented in such major collections as Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery, Colquhoun's rejection of both avant-garde and occult orthodoxies resulted in a life of relative obscurity. Her visual and written works have only recently received adequate recognition as a precursor to contempor