{"id":2404,"date":"2014-10-20T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2014-10-20T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:12:14","slug":"leonora-carrington-invitation-invocation-and-manifestation-a-talk-by-prof-susan-aberth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2404","title":{"rendered":"Leonora Carrington: Invitation, Invocation and Manifestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2014\/10\/Warburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2405\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2014\/10\/Warburg-300x82.jpg\" alt=\"Warburg\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2014\/10\/Warburg-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2014\/10\/Warburg.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 25, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 2pm \u2013 3pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Leonora Carrington: Invitation, Invocation and Manifestation <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366\"> <strong>Prof. Susan Aberth (Bard College)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>From her first widely exhibited work, Inn of the Dawn Horse (Self Portrait), executed while only twenty-one in 1938, the artist Leonora Carrington used the act of painting to invoke and harness unseen forces. Through the depiction of communion with and between animals, the presentation of altars containing ritual sacrifices, or the drawing of magic circles and other geometric patterns, Carrington\u2019s work often serves as a perpetual summoning of the divine to manifest. Celtic goddesses, spirits of the departed, the Sidhe of the Tuatha D\u00e9 Danann, and other chthonic and ancient entities are called forth to serve unknown purposes or perhaps simply to demonstrate their continued existence and intervention in our supposedly secular times. This talk will focus on works in various media that best illustrate this aspect of Carrington\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 25, 2014 2pm \u2013 3pm Leonora Carrington: Invitation, Invocation and Manifestation Prof. Susan Aberth (Bard College) From her first widely exhibited work, Inn of the Dawn Horse (Self Portrait), executed while only twenty-one in 1938, the artist Leonora Carrington used the act of painting to invoke and harness unseen forces. Through the depiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-chair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}