xiii, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Reference LibraryNJ18.An2659 U39 2022 (LC)
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Copyright Not Evaluated
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Books
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Includes bibliographical references and index."From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and dynamic artistic partnership between the wars"-- Provided by publisher.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-- Page 2 of dust jacket.
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Subject Terms:
Andrews, Sybil, 1898–1992. | Power, Cyril E. (Cyril Edward), 1872–1951. | Artist couples -- Biography. | Linoleum block-printing. | Andrews, Sybil, 1898–1992. | Power, Cyril E. (Cyril Edward), 1872–1951. | Artist couples. | Linoleum block-printing.