Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition (Paperback)
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Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition (Paperback)

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Published: 04/07/2019
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As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories differently to the words? Words & Pictures explores this question through three encounters between writers and artists. It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; at Hogarth and Fielding, great innovators, sharing common aims; and at Wordsworth and Bewick, a poet and engraver, both working separately, but both imbued with the spirit of their age. 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.

Sometimes amusing, sometimes moving, this is a book to pore over and enjoy. The visions it considers link daily life to the universal, the passionate and the sublime.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571354115
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 188 g
Dimensions: 180 x 135 x 12 mm
Edition: Main

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