Sybil & Cyril
Cutting through Time
by Jenny Uglow
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Pub Date 4 Nov 2021 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2021
Faber and Faber Ltd | Faber & Faber
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Description
From one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of 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 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.
Advance Praise
'Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic… Uglow is a perfect biographer.' Craig Brown
'Uglow writes with keen perceptiveness and captivating enthusiasm… her writing shines with intelligence and is aglow with affection.' Peter Conrad, Observer
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9780571354153 |
PRICE | £20.00 (GBP) |
PAGES | 416 |