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Sybil Cyril: Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, Artists Together, 1920–1943

By Jenny Uglow

Book information

Publisher
Faber Faber
Year
2021
ISBN
9780571354177, 0571354173
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (23911738 bytes)
Pages
\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-02-18 21:51:03

Description

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.

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