Franklin Rosemont RIP
An obit from Anarchist News on Franklin Rosemont. For years I was used to seeing the Rosemonts hanging around Ennui Cafe, flipping through their books at the Heartland Cafe while I waited in line to pay, and ordering them lunches for Bughouse Committee meetings…it’s sad to see someone so pivotal to the progressive scene pass away. He was an original, spending decades uniting surrealism with radical social change.
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Leonora Carrington, Temple of the Word, 1954
Leonora Carrington, The night of the 8th, 1987
Leonora Carrington, Ab eo quod. 1956. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 61 cm.
An embroidered fire screen bears the Latin words Ab eo quod nigram caudum habet abstine terrestrium enim decorum est, which is a fragment from the Asensus Nigrum, an obscure alchemical text from 1351. This roughly translates as: “Keep away from any with a black tail, indeed, this is the beauty of the earth.”
Susan L. Alberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (New York: Lund Humphries, 2004, p. 93.
In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States
