Words & Pictures - Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria. A former Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus, she is the author of prize-winning biographies and cultural histories, from The Lunar Men: the Friends who made the Future (2002) to In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 (2014). Her interest in text and image is explored in Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition (2008), and in biographies of William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, Walter Crane and most recently in Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense , winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 2018. She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016. She lives in Canterbury and Borrowdale, Cumbria. Klappentext Jenny Uglow is the award-winning author of Elizabeth Gaskell (winner of the Portico Prize)! Nature's Engraver! which won the National Arts Writers Award! and A Gambling Man! which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and most recently In These Times. Words and Pictures by Jenny Uglow is a beautifully illustrated little book exploring the relationships between British writers and artists. Zusammenfassung Jenny Uglow is the award-winning author of Elizabeth Gaskell (winner of the Portico Prize)! Nature's Engraver! which won the National Arts Writers Award! and A Gambling Man! which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and most recently In These Times.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Uglow, Uglow Jenny
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2008
• EAN: 9780571242504
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24250-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 187 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, Prose: non-fiction, HISTORY / General, ART / Individual Artists / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers