Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.
Sybil & Cyril
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.
Cyril Power Linocuts a Complete Catalogue
Author: Philip Vann
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221406
Category : Linoleum block-printing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An assessment of Cyril Power's achievement as a dynamic avant-garde printmaker, showing how the potential of linocut printmaking as a semi-abstract language was realised in his work to an impressively original degree.
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221406
Category : Linoleum block-printing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An assessment of Cyril Power's achievement as a dynamic avant-garde printmaker, showing how the potential of linocut printmaking as a semi-abstract language was realised in his work to an impressively original degree.
Rhythms of Modern Life
Author: Clifford S. Ackley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Sybil Exposed
Author: Debbie Nathan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439168288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439168288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.
Sybil Andrews Linocuts
Author: Hana Leaper
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Under the inspirational teaching of Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews (1898-1992) found her artistic voice in the form of the linocut - a medium demanding directness and dynamism. Tracing her artistic journey through rural Suffolk, inter-war London and finally provincial Canada, this important publication provides a comprehensive overview of the life and work of a key figure in British art history.
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Under the inspirational teaching of Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews (1898-1992) found her artistic voice in the form of the linocut - a medium demanding directness and dynamism. Tracing her artistic journey through rural Suffolk, inter-war London and finally provincial Canada, this important publication provides a comprehensive overview of the life and work of a key figure in British art history.
The Pinecone
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth. Sarah's story is also that of her radical family - friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290450
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. And everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth and the great natural cycles of life and death and rebirth. Sarah's story is also that of her radical family - friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.
Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts
Author: Sybil Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993078644
Category : Linoleum block-printing, British
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993078644
Category : Linoleum block-printing, British
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Artists & Prints
Author: Deborah Wye
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870701252
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870701252
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
Playing with Fire
Author: Roderick D. Buchanan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198566883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
'Playing with Fire' is a biography of psychologist Hans J. Eysenck's career. It looks to describe the contradictions in Eysenck's public and professional image and explain how one fed the other. It documents his boyhood in Berlin and the origins of his key ideas about personality, learning and the biogenetics of behaviour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198566883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
'Playing with Fire' is a biography of psychologist Hans J. Eysenck's career. It looks to describe the contradictions in Eysenck's public and professional image and explain how one fed the other. It documents his boyhood in Berlin and the origins of his key ideas about personality, learning and the biogenetics of behaviour.
Cutting Edge
Author: Gordon Samuel
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 178130078X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London's Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Power, a lecturer in architecture at the school, and Sybil Andrews, the School Secretary, were two of Flight's star students. Whilst incorporating the avant-garde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut in images that are strikingly familiar to this day and are included in the print collections of the world's major museums, including the British Museum, the MoMA New York and the Australian National Gallery. This new book which accompanies an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery illustrates over 120 linocuts, drawings and posters by Grosvenor School artists and its thematic layout focuses on the key components which made up their dynamic and rhythmic visual imagery. For the first time, three Australian printmakers, Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme - who played a major part in the Grosvenor School story - are included in a major museum exhibition outside of Australia.
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 178130078X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London's Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Power, a lecturer in architecture at the school, and Sybil Andrews, the School Secretary, were two of Flight's star students. Whilst incorporating the avant-garde values of Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School printmakers brought their own unique interpretation of the contemporary world to the medium of linocut in images that are strikingly familiar to this day and are included in the print collections of the world's major museums, including the British Museum, the MoMA New York and the Australian National Gallery. This new book which accompanies an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery illustrates over 120 linocuts, drawings and posters by Grosvenor School artists and its thematic layout focuses on the key components which made up their dynamic and rhythmic visual imagery. For the first time, three Australian printmakers, Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme - who played a major part in the Grosvenor School story - are included in a major museum exhibition outside of Australia.