Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College. Her 2004 book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries) is in its 10th edition. Other publications include Leonora Carrington: The Tarot (2020 & 2022) co-authored with Mexican curator Tere Arcq. She has contributed to Surrealism and Magic, Guggenheim Venice (2021); Not Without My Ghosts (2020, Traveling Exhibition, England); Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, 2019), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Magicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018), Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as journals like Artforum, Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, and Journal of Surrealism of the Americas.

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