Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art
This new collection of illustrations, paintings, photographs, letters, notebook pages, and other material, some never before published, is a unique memoir of Mervyn Peake's life and work.
This new collection of illustrations, paintings, photographs, letters, notebook pages, and other material, some never before published, is a unique memoir of Mervyn Peake's life and work.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780720612844 (0720612845)
Publish date: March 1st 2007
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Beautifully and lavishly illustrated with images of Peake's work over his lifetime, a series of short, readable and often pleasing discussions of his biography, his writing and his development as a visual artist provide a lot of insight and I think successfully add to our enjoyment and appreciation...
What a wonderful, lavishly illustrated, insight into Peake and his works.Despite the title, it is almost as much about Peake's words as his life and art, though all seen in relation to his art; as Anthony Burgess said, Peake's novels are "aggressively three dimensional", so it's a good pairing. The ...
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