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Jenny Uglow

    1 gennaio 1947

    Jennifer Uglow è una biografa, critica ed editrice britannica il cui lavoro si addentra in personalità avvincenti e momenti culturali cruciali. Le sue biografie acclamate dalla critica esplorano le vite e le opere di importanti artisti e intellettuali, svelandone le motivazioni e l'impatto sociale. Uglow eccelle nel suo perspicace approccio analitico e nella sua capacità di far rivivere la storia attraverso una narrazione avvincente.

    Elizabeth Gaskell
    Nature's Engraver
    Mr Lear
    Walter Crane
    Nature's engraver
    The Quentin Blake Book
    • 2022

      A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist's 90th birthday in December 2022.0 Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed and inspired generations of readers. Tracing Blake's art and career from his very first drawings - published in Punch when he was 16 - through his collaborations with writers from Roald Dahl and John Yeoman to Russell Hoban and David Walliams, to his large-scale works for hospitals and public spaces and right up to his most recent passions and projects, acclaimed author Jenny Uglow here presents a fully illustrated overview of Quentin Blake's extraordinary body of work, with accompanying commentary by the artist himself.0 With unprecedented access to the artist's entire archive, The Quentin Blake Book reveals the stories behind some of Blake's most famous creations, while also providing readers with an intimate insight into the unceasing creativity of this remarkable artist

      The Quentin Blake Book
    • 2022
    • 2021

      Sybil & Cyril

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      "from one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and dynamic artistic partnership between the wars"--

      Sybil & Cyril
    • 2019

      Words & Pictures

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      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.

      Words & Pictures
    • 2019

      Walter Crane

      • 112pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children's books.

      Walter Crane
    • 2018

      Grayson Perry

      • 71pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      A handsome new publication on Grayson Perry CBE RA, one of Britain's best- known artists with an incisive new text by the prize-winning biographer Jenny Uglow.

      Grayson Perry
    • 2017

      It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding women, the florists and nursery gardeners - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters.

      A Little History Of British Gardening
    • 2017

      Mr Lear

      • 608pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      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 depended on patrons and moved in establishment circles.

      Mr Lear
    • 2014

      In These Times

      • 740pagine
      • 26 ore di lettura

      "A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century"-- Provided by publisher

      In These Times
    • 2012

      The Pinecone

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate, an architect and an intellectual who dumbfounded critics with her genius and originality. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past.

      The Pinecone