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Sybil and Cyril

Cutting Through Time

Jenny Uglow

£20.00

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.

Another fascinating biography from Jenny Uglow, who resides in the Lake District

publisher:

Faber and Faber

pages:

416p

Publication Date:

2021 November 4

format:

235mm x 155mm Hardback

ISBN:

9780571354153


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