Mervyn Peakes Vast Alchemies The Illustrated Biography

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Mervyn Peakes Vast Alchemies The Illustrated Biography

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This biography of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) explores the life and extraordinary imagination of one of Britain''''s most singular writers and artists. In the space of thirty years Peake produced more than two hundred and fifty poems, four novels (including the celebrated Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone), a novella and numerous short stories; he also wrote ten plays (several of them for radio). He illustrated two dozen books, including such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Hunting of the Snark, Alice''''s Adventures in Wonderland, Bleak House and Treasure Island, and designed many book jackets; he painted innumerable portraits and others pictures and made thousands of drawings in a wide variety of media. He also taught hundreds of art students. Peter Winnington follows Peake''''s life from his birth in China through his student years and a sojourn in an artists'''' colony on Sark, his marriage and his frustrating years as a soldier when he wished to be a war artist. Yet the 1940s, marked by a tr

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This biography of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) explores the life and extraordinary imagination of one of Britain's most singular writers and artists. In the space of thirty years Peake produced more than two hundred and fifty poems, four novels (including the celebrated Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone), a novella and numerous short stories; he also wrote ten plays (several of them for radio). He illustrated two dozen books, including such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Hunting of the Snark, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Bleak House and Treasure Island, and designed many book jackets; he painted innumerable portraits and others pictures and made thousands of drawings in a wide variety of media. He also taught hundreds of art students. Peter Winnington follows Peake's life from his birth in China through his student years and a sojourn in an artists' colony on Sark, his marriage and his frustrating years as a soldier when he wished to be a war artist. Yet the 1940s, marked by a traumatic visit to newly liberated Belsen in 1945, were his most productive years. From the middle of the 1950s Parkinson's disease gradually prevented him from working and led to his premature death in 1968.

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Anul publicarii	2009
ISBN	9780720613414
Format coperta	Brosata
Numar pagini	326
Limba	English
Domeniul	AUTHORS
Autor	G. Peter Winnington
De aceeasi editura	Peter Owen Publishers
CM	30843
DS	D/1#BR/1#MEGA/1
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780720613414
Dimensiuni	Height: 8.5 Inches, Length: 5.5 Inches, Weight: 0.8 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches