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Sybil & Cyril

Cutting through Time

Jenny Uglow author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:18th Aug '22

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From one of our most admired writers, the gripping story of a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.

'A joy to read.' Sunday Times

'Outstanding.' DailyTelegraph

'Excellent.' The Spectator

'Superb.' Literary Review

'Scintillating . Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts - streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar years.

'A joy to read.' Sunday Times

'Outstanding.' DailyTelegraph

'Excellent.' The Spectator

'Superb.' Literary Review

'Scintillating . . . A gripping, mysterious love story which also sheds light on British culture between the wars.' Financial Times

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.

Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

ISBN: 9780571354160

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm

Weight: 398g

416 pages

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