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Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power’s interwar art - Apoorva Tadepalli - Bookforum Magazine

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Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power’s interwar art – Apoorva Tadepalli

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by jenny uglow. new york: farrar, straus and giroux. 416 pages. $40. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon IN A TEACHING MANUAL she wrote in the 1980s, the artist Sybil Andrews stressed the importance of reaching into an image for its essence, stripping away whatever stagnated it. “Can you catch that? Can you get that sense of movement?” she would ask. The advice revealed a design philosophy that had defined her work for decades: her 1931 linocut In Full Cry shows a row of horses leaping over a hedge, their riders’ coattails soaring behind them. The lin

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