Sybil Cyril

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571354177

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Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow Pdf

'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILL The story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil. 'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.' GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic . . . Uglow is a perfect biographer.' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAY 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 colour, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time they looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight. Cyril & Sybil 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, shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.

Author : Philip Vann
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Linoleum block-printing
ISBN : 1848221401

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Cyril Power Linocuts a Complete Catalogue by Philip Vann Pdf

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.

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571290451

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The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow Pdf

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.

Author : Debbie Nathan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439168288

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Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan Pdf

Journalist Debbie Nathan reveals the true story behind the famous case of Sybil, the woman with sixteen different personalities.

Author : Jennifer Farrell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397393

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Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939 by Jennifer Farrell Pdf

The bold graphic images made by artists affiliated with Vorticism, British Futurism, and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art capture the optimism and anxiety of early twentieth-century Britain. This richly illustrated volume features rare British prints from the Leslie and Johanna Garfield collection dating between 1913 and 1939—a period marked by two world wars, a global pandemic, the Great Depression, and the rise of Fascism and Communism, but also new technologies, women’s suffrage, and a growing focus on public access to art. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. At the heart of the catalogue are the colorful linocuts made by artists associated with London’s celebrated Grosvenor School. The visually striking compositions by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight, Cyril E. Power, and Lill Tschudi, among others, convey the vitality of quotidian life during the machine age.

Author : Hana Leaper
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848221800

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Sybil Andrews Linocuts by Hana Leaper Pdf

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.

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571312627

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In These Times by Jenny Uglow Pdf

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives? Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. As the years passed, so the bullish, flamboyant figure of Napoleon - Boney, the bogeyman - came to dominate so much that the whole long conflict was given his name. Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.

Author : Roderick D. Buchanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198566885

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Playing with Fire by Roderick D. Buchanan Pdf

'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.

Author : Clifford S. Ackley,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015077626409

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Rhythms of Modern Life by Clifford S. Ackley,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Janet Nicol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1987915879

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On the Curve by Janet Nicol Pdf

Sybil Andrews was one of Canada's most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River, Andrews created striking linocut prints steeped in feeling and full of movement. Inspired by the working-class community that she lived in, her art is known for its honest depiction of ordinary people at work and play on Canada's West Coast. In this first fully illustrated biography, author Janet Nicol weaves together stories from Andrews' letters, diaries and interviews from her former students and friends, creating a portrait of this determined, resilient and gifted British-Canadian artist. Andrews' work is as popular today as it was in her lifetime and continues to celebrate the cultural, industrial, agricultural and natural world of Canada's West Coast.

Author : Stephen Coppel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034517972

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Linocuts of the Machine Age by Stephen Coppel Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including letters, memoirs, photographs and critical appraisals in the press, Stephen Coppel provides a fascinating account of the work and lives of these seven artists. This book will introduce to a new audience the vitality and appeal of these prints, which, from the Second World War until quite recently, have been largely overlooked. A key feature of the book is an extensive and fully illustrated catalogue raisonne which documents over 380 linocuts, arranged in chronological order by artist. The catalogue records their exhibition history and location and provides documentary and contextual notes on individual entries.

Author : Gordon Samuel
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781300787

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Cutting Edge by Gordon Samuel Pdf

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.

Author : Deborah Wye,Starr Figura,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870701258

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Artists & Prints by Deborah Wye,Starr Figura,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.

Author : Shahrnush Parsipur
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558616318

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Touba and the Meaning of Night by Shahrnush Parsipur Pdf

An Iranian woman forges her own path through life in this “stylishly original contribution to modern feminist literature” (Publishers Weekly). After her father’s death, fourteen-year-old Touba takes her family’s financial security into her own hands by proposing to a fifty-two-year-old relative. But, intimidated by her outspoken nature, Touba’s husband soon divorces her. When she marries again, it is to a prince with whom she experiences tenderness and physical passion and bears four children—but their relationship sours when he proves unfaithful. Touba is granted a divorce, and as her unconventional life continues, she becomes the matriarch of an ever-changing household of family members and refugees . . . Hailed as “one of the unsurpassed masterpieces of modern Persian literature” (Iranian.com), Touba and the Meaning of Night explores the ongoing tensions between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male dominance and female will—all from a distinctly Iranian viewpoint. Defying both Western stereotypes of Iranian women and expectations of literary form, this beautiful novel reflects the unique voice of its author as well as an important tradition in Persian women’s writing. “Parsipur’s novel carries the reader on a mystical and emotional odyssey spanning eight decades of Iranian cultural, political, and religious history . . . rewarding and enlightening.” —Booklist “A sweeping chronicle of modern Iranian history and a study of the plight of twentieth-century Iranian women . . . [displaying] deft utilization of magic realism and Persian myths . . . rich and well-crafted.” —Library Journal

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781448104963

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A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow Pdf

Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges. Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores? Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for ornamental grasses and 'outdoor rooms' today. Tracking down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - from weeding women to florists - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters, A Little History of British Gardening is brought to life by gorgeously vivid illustrations and Uglow's insightful wisdom. Not only dealing with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, Uglow explains, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots; how housewives used herbs to stop freckles; how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a crisp, winter's day out - but also to read in your armchair with a well-earned glass of red, after a hard day's graft in your own garden. 'Enchanting, stirringly evocative and fascinating' Daily Mail 'This book will be a joy for any gardener' Independent