Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer

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The reprints in this are much better and of course this provides a much more rounded understanding of his work and life. Probably the most comprehensive book on Ravilious which will doubtless sell out at the Dulwich exhibition next year. Author James Russell sets out to discover the places that inspired Ravilious, explore the remarkable books he illustrated and meet the people he portrayed.

A joyful and celebratory gift book devoted to the work of the much-loved English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and the influence of natural forms and themes in his work. Agreeing a compromise, his father sent him to study machine draughtsmanship at the Knirr School of Art, Munich, with the thought that this would give his son a skill he might apply professionally. WITH-- D B Wyndham Lewis, James Agate, A J A Symons, Ernest Newman, Robert Lynd, Dilys Powell, Harold Hobson, Gerard Hopkins, Ronald Knox, Olga Venn, John Gore, W W Hadley, Campbell Dixon.The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

The text which rightly concentrates on Ravilious's artistic attainments, and excellently so, is very much a potted biography; it fails, for example, to mention his close relationship with Peggy Angus who herself is the subject of a new and welcome comprehensive work.Stanley Spencer One of Britain’s most significant painters, Sir Stanley Spencer is celebrated for his garden landscapes, his raw depictions of personal life and his interpretations of biblical narrative – all set in his beloved birthplace, the village of Cookham, Berkshire. His appeal is not just to art lovers but to everyone who takes pleasure in the ordinary scenes of life. Due to encouragement by his tutor Paul Nash and later to financial pressures, Ravilious turned his hand to a wide variety of creative work, from designs for ceramics, glass, furniture, murals, and textiles, to illustrating books, pamphlets, and posters.