Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship by Andy Friend Paperback Book

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Ravilious & Co

by Andy Friend, Alan Powers

The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy.

In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most important British artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours and wood engravings capture an essential sense of place and the spirit of mid-century England. What is less appreciated is that he did not work in isolation, but within a much wider network of artists, friends and lovers influenced by Paul Nash's teaching at the Royal College of Art - Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Enid Marx, Tirzah Garwood, Percy Horton, Peggy Angus and Helen Binyon among them. The Ravilious group bridged the gap between fine art and design, and the gentle, locally rooted but spritely character of their work came to be seen as the epitome of contemporary British values.

Eighty years after Ravilious's untimely death, Andy Friend tells the story of this group of artists from their student days through to the Second World War. Ravilious & Co. explores how they influenced each other and how a shared experience animated their work, revealing the significance in this pattern of friendship of women artists, whose place within the history of British art has often been neglected. Generously illustrated and drawing on extensive research, and a wealth of newly discovered material, Ravilious & Co. is an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy.

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Author Biography

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. Alan Powers, author of Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer, teaches, writes and curates on themes relating to twentieth-century art, architecture and design. He published Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator in 2016, and Enid Marx: The Pleasures of Pattern in 2018.

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'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
'Shrewdly and sympathetically charts the wide-ranging influence of this group and their personal and professional relationships' - Sunday Times
'A fascinating slice of English artistic and social history' - New York Review of Books
'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
'One of the best biographies this year … a lovely account' - Guardian
'Adds much new detail and factual fine-tuning to our picture of national, in contrast to international, modern art in interwar Britain' - Daily Telegraph

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The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy

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The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy

Details ISBN0500296766 Author Alan Powers Year 2022 ISBN-10 0500296766 ISBN-13 9780500296769 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-09-01 UK Release Date 2022-09-01 Pages 336 Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-09-01 Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd Illustrations 240 Illustrations, color Subtitle The Pattern of Friendship DEWEY 709.22 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-08-31

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  • Condition: Brand new
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  • ISBN-13: 9780500296769
  • Author: Andy Friend, Alan Powers
  • Book Title: Ravilious & Co

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