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Sybil & Cyril
Cutting through Time
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the creative undertakings of artists seeking to transform societal norms. It delves into the lives of two avant-garde figures in the British art scene, exploring their partnership and shared ambitions during times of significant cultural change. If you appreciate narratives that weave personal stories with broader historical contexts, this insightful biography might be perfect for you.
Sybil & Cyril
From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
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'A joy to read.' Sunday Times
'Outstanding.' Daily Telegraph
'Excellent.' The Spectator
'Superb.' Literary Review
'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars.' Financial Times
Sybil & Cyril takes us to 1922, when 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, becoming famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour—that sum up the hectic interwar years.
Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction. But alongside the buzz of the new—machines and speed, shops and sport and dance—they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.
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Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow has been praised for its engaging storytelling and rich historical detail. The biography delves into the lives of Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power, exploring their collaboration and personal dynamics within the art world. Reviewers commend the book for its vivid narrative and insightful look at the cultural context of the time, providing an illuminating portrayal of these two artists.
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ISBN: 9780571354160
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 August 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 398g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria. A former Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, she is the author of prize-winning biographies and cultural histories, from The Lunar Men: the Friends who made the Future (2002) to In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 (2014). Her interest in text and image is explored in Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition (2008), and in biographies of William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, Walter Crane and most recently in Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense, winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 2018. She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016. She lives in Canterbury and Borrowdale, Cumbria.
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