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Walter Crane

By Jenny Uglow
Series: The Illustrators
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Walter Crane by Jenny Uglow explores the life and work of Walter Crane, a prolific illustrator and influential figure in political culture. The book details Crane's artistic evolution from his early admiration of Pre-Raphaelite painting to his engagement with the works of Morris and William Blake. Uglow highlights how Crane created a distinctive style, producing journals, books, banners, pamphlets, and postcards that became iconic within the international socialist movement. Featuring a vast array of visual materials, this biography reveals how Crane's art transcended linguistic boundaries to become a universal symbolic language.
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Format: Hardback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in art history, political art, and the intersection of culture and activism. It will also appeal to those fascinated by illustration and the social impact of visual art.

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An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children's books.

An exploration of the life and work of the pioneering British socialist illustrator Walter Crane - part of Thames & Hudson's new Illustrators series, created in collaboration with Quentin Blake.

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Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow expertly weaves a fascinating study of how Crane's art and politics developed from his childhood love of Pre-Raphaelite painting to the influences of Morris and William Blake on the journals, books, banners, pamphlets and postcards he went on to create as he forged a new style for the international socialist movement.

Comprising a staggering range of visual material, Crane's images became a symbolic code that leapt over linguistic boundaries. This book is a brilliant record of an artist who blended styles and influences like no one before him.

Series: The Illustrators

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500022627

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 117 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Consultant editor Quentin Blake
  • Series edited by Claudia Zeff

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Jenny Uglow Non-Fiction Series: The Illustrators

About the Author

Jenny Uglow's books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. Her book on Thomas Bewick won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007, and her work on Charles II was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book, Mr Lear, was described in the Guardian as 'quite wonderful'.

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