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Eating and knowing are intimately connected in Down Below, Carrington’s haunting memoir of psychological deterioration during the Second World War. Grandmother Moorhead’s Aromatic Kitchen, 1975 ‘I am no longer the Ravishing young girl who passed through Paris, in love – I am an old lady who has lived through a lot and I have changed.’1…
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Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Auerbach was sent to Britain in 1939 through the Kindertransport scheme. Three years later, his mother and father were killed in Auschwitz. His post-war series of charcoal portraits, currently on exhibition at The Courtauld, carries a sense of grief for the lives lost and irredeemably shattered by war. Caught…