Description
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
About the Author
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.
Reviews
'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
Book Information
ISBN 9780500239551
Author Andy Friend
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight(grams) 1100g