The first biography of the circle of British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy.
Andy Friend has spent a decade researching the life and work of Eric Ravilious and his extensive circle. He is co-curator of Towner Art Gallery's major touring exhibition, 'Ravilious & Co.'
'Adds much new detail and factual fine-tuning to our picture of
national, in contrast to international, modern art in interwar
Britain' - Daily Telegraph
'Friend excels … in the glimpses he offers of the lives behind the
art' - The Times
'A moving book' - Literary Review
'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
'Beautifully illustrated' - The Times
'Gorgeously illustrated' - The Lady
'Beautifully written' - Sussex Life
'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
'Valuable and absorbing' - Yorkshire Post
'A deft example of that tricky genre, the group biography' - Martin
Gayford, The Spectator
'One of the best biographies this year … a lovely account' -
Guardian
'Shrewdly and sympathetically charts the wide-ranging influence of
this group and their personal and professional relationships' -
Sunday Times
'Generously illustrated, beautifully written … a remarkable
testimony to the making of art and friendship' - The Artist
'A fascinating slice of English artistic and social history' - New
York Review of Books
'Engagingly written … beautifully produced' - Art Newspaper
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