Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780720610796 (0720610796)
Publish date: December 1st 1999
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Pages no: 270
Edition language: English
This is one of a number of books by Winnington about Mervyn Peake. It lacks the illustrations in the beautiful "Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art" and, if forced to choose, I would suggest that book is to be preferred, since it includes adequate biographical details alongside the all important visu...
This is one of a number of books by Winnington about Mervyn Peake. It lacks the illustrations in the beautiful "Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art" and, if forced to choose, I would suggest that book is to be preferred, since it includes adequate biographical details alongside the all important visu...
COMPARING BIOGRAPHIES OF PEAKEThis is a fascinating, passionate, exhaustively researched, illustrated - but eminently readable - biography of Peake, focusing on how his life affected his works (both written and drawn/painted). Of the four other biographies I've read, this is the one that is best fo...
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