The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy
Andy Friend first became interested in the art of Eric Ravilious and his circle while living in Australia and missing the English landscape. Two decades later, back in Sussex, he conceived and co-curated Towner's major touring exhibition 'Ravilious & Co.', which attracted 100,000 visitors. Alan Powers, author of Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer, teaches, writes and curates on themes relating to twentieth-century art, architecture and design. He published Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator in 2016, and Enid Marx: The Pleasures of Pattern in 2018.
'The book is magnificent. I can’t recommend it enough ... Andy
Friend seems to have opened new vistas on the lives, loves and
connections of this mesmerising and migrant artist – right up to
his last fatal flight off Iceland in 1942' - Robert Macfarlane
'Shrewdly and sympathetically charts the wide-ranging influence of
this group and their personal and professional relationships' -
Sunday Times
'A fascinating slice of English artistic and social history' - New
York Review of Books
'A lovingly researched and crafted portrait of intricately
connected creative lives... New voices emerge from the archives,
unfamiliar images light up the pages. Here, above all, is the
joyous making of art' - Alexandra Harris, author of Weatherland
'One of the best biographies this year … a lovely account' -
Guardian
'Adds much new detail and factual fine-tuning to our picture of
national, in contrast to international, modern art in interwar
Britain' - Daily Telegraph
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