{"product_id":"words-pictures-writers-artists-and-a-peculiarly-british-tradition","title":"Words \u0026 Pictures: Writers  Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eWords \u0026amp; Pictures explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrims 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. At turns moving and comic  this book illuminates a brilliant poet  an engraver  a writer and an artist  it touches on a peculiarly British tradition of community and defiance of authority  unmasking pretension and celebrating energy and warmth. The visions it considers link daily life to the universal  the passionate and the sublime. Jenny Uglow is the award-winning author of Elizabeth Gaskell (winner of the Portico Prize)  Natures 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. Perhaps future biographies (of requisite quality) celebrating a certain kind of unshowy Georgian figure could be called \"Uglows Lives\" after the woman who has made the genre her own. Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966701531189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0571242502","price":83.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780571242504.jpg?v=1770575521","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/words-pictures-writers-artists-and-a-peculiarly-british-tradition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}