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From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. 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 color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time 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, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.
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"Sybil & Cyril, then, brings a remarkable relationship to life, along with the remarkable era in which it blossomed."
"A vivid, engaging portrait of a productive artistic partnership."
"Jenny Uglow's rich evocation of the past creates a lavish detailed background and illuminates the complex circumstances in which art is made."
"Uglow is wonderful at conjuring up atmospheres."
"Uglow is too principled a biographer to force an interpretation ..."
"For a book about artists who insisted on stripping away 'unnecessary' details, it makes a resolutely contrary case for minding them ..."
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