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- Leonora referred to the debutante season as “a cattle market,” and it’s clear that it epitomized everything she had come to loathe about the society in which she found herself: snobbery, fixed expectations, lack of spontaneity, sexism.
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Jan 5, 2014 · "The Debutante" by Leonora Carrington WHEN I was a debutante I often went to the zoological garden. I went so often that I was better acquainted with animals than with the young girls of my age. It was to escape from the world that I found myself each day at the zoo.
Apr 12, 2017 · In Leonora Carrington’s 1937 short story “ The Debutante,” a rebellious, upper-class girl’s only ally is a hyena. A frequent visitor of the zoo, the girl laments to the hyena there that she...
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Nov 2, 2017 · What Leonora Carrington remembered most clearly about being a debutante in 1935 was her tiara ‘biting’ into her skull.
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May 5, 2017 · In 1935, the 17-year-old debutante was presented to the court of King George. A photo taken that night shows a tall, handsome girl with porcelain skin, her satin gown slithering into a puddle...
Why do you think it was important for her to transform herself into another being or totem? In this video, you will study the beginning of Leonora Carrington’s practice through a series of her books and paintings.
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Feb 4, 2021 · The hypothesis of her animal representations stems from her story The Debutante. In it, a girl befriends a hyena who agrees to attend a debutante ball in the girl’s place…wearing the face of a maid. Carrington over time began to use both a pregnant hyena and a white horse to represent herself. Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
