CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/17/2019

Wonderful strange power in 'Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture'

Leonora Carrington’s 1937–8 “Self-Portrait, or The Inn of the Dawn Horse” is reproduced from Spring 2019 staff favorite, Visions of Enchantment from the fascinating new D.A.P. publisher, Fulgur Press. Exquisitely made, this oversized, generously illustrated volume gathers essays written for a major international conference on Western Esotericism. “I often feel like Joan of Arc so dreadfully misunderstood,” Carrington is quoted. “I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I am different from everybody else because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me and it becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being like myself.”