Sybil & Cyril : cutting through time / Jenny Uglow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uglow, Jenny, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andrews, Sybil, 1898-1992.

Andrews, Sybil.

Power, Cyril E. (Cyril Edward), 1872-1951.

Power, Cyril E.

Artist couples--Biography.

Artist couples.

Linoleum block-printing.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

Sybil and Cyril : cutting through time

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. MEETING

1. War

2. Sybil

3. Cyril

4. Angel Hill

II. SETTING OUT

5. The Move

6. Heatherleys

7. London

8. Phoenix Place and Drypoints

9. Wembley

10. `The Art of To-day'

11. The Grosvenor School

12. The Arrival of Flight

13. Hay Lane and Brook Green

III. MAKING

14. Colour

15. The First Show

16. Woolpit

17. Underground

18. Action

19. In the Body

20. Falling or Flying

21. `Our Ladye'

22. Forms of Faith

23. Saints and Matriarchs

24. `Our Show'

25. The Sporting Life

26. Pipes and Viols

27. `People and Freedom'

28. Out of London

29. Change All Around

IV. MOVING

30. Sea and Forest

31. Pipers

32. War Again

33. The Yard, and Walter

V. PARTING

34. Cyril

35. Sybil

36. Endings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374272128

0374272123

OCLC:

1289235002