The Quentin Blake Book
$51.10
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2022
Summary
Quentin Blake: A Celebration of a Beloved Illustrator
A fully illustrated overview of the life and work of the universally loved Quentin Blake, released ahead of the artist’s 90th birthday in December 2022.
Quentin Blake is an artist who has charmed and inspired generations of readers. Tracing Blake’s art and career from his very first drawings - published in Punch when he was 16 - through his collaborations with writers from Roald Dahl and John Yeoman to Ru…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500094358 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0500094357 |
| Author: | Jenny Uglow |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 589mm x 244mm |
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Critics Review
‘Quentin Blake is without doubt Britain’s best-known and best-loved living illustrator’ - Sir Christopher Frayling’[Reveals a] gentle whimsicality … has an utterly distinctive personal line, recognisable at a glance’ - Martin Gayford, The Spectator‘A handsome 90th-birthday celebration of Mr. Blake’s life and work’ - The Wall Street Journal‘Richly detailed’ - The New York Review of Books‘A visual feast and an engaging biography of the artist most known for illustrating Roald Dahl’s books… A work of art to slowly take in and a fascinating peek into the life of an iconic artist’ - School Library Journal
About The Author
Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow is a prize-winning author and biographer. She was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-16. Her books include bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick won the National Arts Writers Award; A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Edward Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize. She is also the author of Walter Crane in the Thames & Hudson series The Illustrators (2019).
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