Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Tuesday 12 April 2022
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.
The bestselling author, Jenny Uglow, picks up the story of Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power, who in the interwar years became the pioneers of modernist linocut art and attracted attention with their generation-gap relationship.
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.
Sybil & Cyril traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island
Jenny Uglow OBE has worked in publishing since leaving university. Until 2013 she was editorial director of the publishing company Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House.
Jenny grew up in Cumbria and later Dorset. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Anne's College, University of Oxford
She is an honorary visiting professor at the University of Warwick,vice-president of the Gaskell Society and a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Tuesday 12th April at 5.00pm on Zoom
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.
The bestselling author, Jenny Uglow, picks up the story of Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power, who in the interwar years became the pioneers of modernist linocut art and attracted attention with their generation-gap relationship.
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.
Sybil & Cyril traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island
Jenny Uglow OBE has worked in publishing since leaving university. Until 2013 she was editorial director of the publishing company Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Random House.
Jenny grew up in Cumbria and later Dorset. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Anne's College, University of Oxford
She is an honorary visiting professor at the University of Warwick,vice-president of the Gaskell Society and a trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £10.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Tuesday 12th April at 5.00pm on Zoom
EVENT DATE
APRIL 12, 2022
COST
£10.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Not specified/unlimited
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