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By Uglow, Jenny
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It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; A brief coda turns to a fourth relationship: writers and artists who collaborate from the start, like Dickens and Phiz, and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.
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By Uglow, Jenny
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At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment: the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. This biography tells a story of violent chan...ge, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild. Read more
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Tells the story of Thomas Bewick - the farmer's son from Tyneside who became one of Britain's greatest and most popular engravers.
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By Uglow, Jenny
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If we follow him across land and sea - to Italy, Greece and Albania, to The Levant and Egypt and India - and to the borderlands of spirit and self, art and desire, can we see, in the end, if the nonsense makes sense?
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if s...hot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. Read more
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Milton is a northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as her stormy relationship with the mill-owner J...ohn Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light. Read more
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Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. This title presents a portrait o...f Charles II, exploring his elusive nature. Read more
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Explores three examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress ; Hogarth and Fielding , and a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working separately, but... imbued with the spirit of their age. Read more
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An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children's books.
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By Uglow, Jenny
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Where do these human-like animals and birds and these odd adventures - some gentle, some violent, some musical, some wild - come from? In this book the author's many drawings that accompany his verse are almost hyper-real, as if he wants to free the creatures from the page. It de...pended on patrons and moved in establishment circles. Read more
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