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Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition (Hardcover)

by Jenny Uglow (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 161 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (16 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571242502
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571242504
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 14 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 95,686 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #63 in  Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Graphic Arts > Illustration
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"Words and Pictures" explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of "Paradise Lost" and "Pilgrim's Progress"; "Hogarth and Fielding", a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working separately, but imbued with the spirit of their age. A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with Dickens and Phiz. Illustrated throughout with a wide variety of examples, this is a book to pore over and enjoy.


About the Author

Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria, and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described in the Observer as 'a spectacular, epic book ... Never has the eighteenth century come so much to life,' while her most recent book, A Little History of British Gardening, was called 'a delight from beginning to end' in the Observer. She lives in Canterbury.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Such a lovely and interesting little book, 30 Jan 2009
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Jenny Uglow is a great writer interested in the visual as well as the textual - that's why she's written biographies of Thomas Bewick, the bird artist, and Hogarth, as well as looking at Joseph Wright of Derby in her book on the Lunar Men.

She is also such a lovely light writer that she manages to sneak all sorts of excellent information and intriguing thoughts into your head without you even realising that she's doing it. She has three main chapters to this book - one on Milton, Bunyan, Blake and dramatic illustrations of religious woes; one on Hogarth and Fielding and their depiction of everyday downclass life in 18th century England; and one on Wordsworth and Bewick and their interest in showing how it felt to be close to nature. Then there's a last chapter on Tenniel, Alice, Dickens and his illustrators.

It's a meandering book, but you never feel anything other than enjoyment because you are with such a sure guide. Very enjoyable for anyone who is at all interested in books with pictures and how they work. And a very nicely produced book if you are looking for a gift.
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1.0 out of 5 stars words and pictures by jenny uglow, 27 Dec 2008
This book is a complete jumble - half the pictures referred to in the text are not reproduced and those that are have to be tracked down.

A big, big disappointment especially from such a talented writer.

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