More popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is
rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This
best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on
Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the
artist's work in all media - watercolour, illustration,
printmaking, graphic design, textiles and ceramics - and firmly
positions Ravilious as a major figure in the history of early
20th-century British art. Now available in paperback, the
accessible and engaging text, copiously illustrated with
reproductions of work drawn from a range of sources, discusses the
part Ravilious' work played in creating an English style,
positioned between tradition and modernism, and borrowing from
naive and popular art of the past. The book analyses Ravilious'
different spheres of activity in turn, covering his education and
formative influences, his mural painting, his printmaking and
illustration, his work as leader in forming a new style of
watercolour painting between the wars and his final period as an
official War Artist. In a career curtailed by an early death,
Ravilious also played a significant role as a designer; Powers
argues that Ravilious showed how decoration and historical
reference could find a place in the reform of the applied arts
whilst simultaneously renewing a sense of national identity. Eric
Ravilious will be welcomed by all those with an interest in an
artist whose imagination was backed by great skill and a sharp eye
for the unusual.
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