Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews were a British couple who were together for 20 years and became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, which captured the hectic interwar years. They also looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 18 August 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, abandoned his family in 1922 to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summarizing the hectic interwar years.

Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

Theirs was a scintillating world of Futurists, Surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but alongside the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, shops and sport and dance, they also looked back, to medieval myths and early music, to country ways disappearing from sight.

Weight: 398g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571354160
Edition number: Main