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A Tale of Mother's Bones - Grace Pailthorpe, Reuben Mednikoff and the Birth Of
Psychorealism
Camden Arts Centre 2019 ISBN 9781907208867 Acqn 29526
Pb 20x25cm 160pp 96ills 86col £27.50

A Tale of Mother's Bones tells the remarkable story of a unique artistic and personal
collaboration. After meeting at a party in 1935, Dr. Grace Pailthorpe (1883-1971), a trained
surgeon, and Reuben Mednikoff (1906-1972), an artist and designer, began collaborating on a
project that would bring together art, writing and psychoanalysis in an attempt to create a better
society. Initially associated with Surrealism and praised by Andre Breton as 'the best and most
truly surrealist' of all the British artists, they made wildly experimental paintings and drawings
which they then subjected to psychoanalytic interpretation; developing a creative practice that
they called 'Psychorealism'.

With essays by Hope Wolf, Michel Remy, Andrew Wilson, Laura Salisbury, Joanna Pawlik, Rosie
Cooper, Gina Buenfeld and Martin Clark.

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