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The Living Stones
Cornwall
First published 1957
About the book
“In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist’s studio and sanctuary from the modern world. Her finely wrought and learned observations of festivals, fairs and druidic rituals, quickly establish her as the reader’s gnostic guide to the county. She paints a land of ghosts, pedlars, borrowed saints and holy sites, charmed wells and crumbling megaliths, and finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture.
What the critics said
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Possessed of Alchemystic Powers
In 1949 Ithell Colquhoun—artist, writer, and occultist—produced a manifesto, titled “The Mantic Stain,” in which she called on her readers to follow French Surrealism’s practice of “pure psychic automatism.” It was, Breton wrote, “the real working of thought. Dictation of thought, without any…
Marina Warner
Also reviews Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun, I Saw Water by Ithell Colquhoun, The Crying of the Wind by Ithell Colquhoun, Genius of the Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale, Sex Magic by Ithell Colquhoun and A Walking Flame by Amy Hale
About the author
All 5 books by Ithell ColquhounSubjects
- Headings
- Description and travel
Catalogue record
- Author
- Colquhoun, Ithell, 1906–1988
- Statement
- The Living Stones : Cornwall / Ithell Colquhoun.
Book facts
- Publisher
- Non-ISBN Publisher, 1957
- Pages
- 224
- LC
- DA670.C8 C72 1957
- Dewey
- 914.237
- ISBN
- 978-0-7206-1893-8
1 more ISBN
- 978-1-80533-097-4
- Editions
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3 English editions
- Non-ISBN Publisher, 1957, 224 pages 978-0-7206-1893-8
- Peter Owen, 1957, 212 pages
- Steerforth Press, 2025, 240 pages 978-1-80533-097-4
- Records
- Open Library OCLC 949821595
