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
Jenny Uglow Ordre des livres
Jennifer Uglow est une biographe, critique et éditrice britannique dont le travail explore des personnalités captivantes et des moments culturels décisifs. Ses biographies acclamées par la critique examinent la vie et l'œuvre d'artistes et d'intellectuels importants, révélant leurs motivations et leur impact sur la société. Uglow excelle par son approche analytique perspicace et sa capacité à faire revivre l'histoire grâce à une narration captivante.






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- 2021
Sybil & Cyril
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
"from one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and dynamic artistic partnership between the wars"--
- 2019
Words & Pictures
- 176pages
- 7 heures de lecture
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.
- 2019
Walter Crane
- 112pages
- 4 heures de lecture
An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children's books.
- 2018
Grayson Perry
- 71pages
- 3 heures de lecture
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.
- 2017
A Little History Of British Gardening
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
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.
- 2017
Mr Lear
- 608pages
- 22 heures de lecture
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.
- 2014
In These Times
- 740pages
- 26 heures de lecture
"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
- 2012
The Pinecone
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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.
