Peacock & Vine by A.S. Byatt — FB2 download ~ 9781101947470

Peacock & Vine
On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
by A.S. Byatt

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• Language: english
• Format: hardcover, 208 pages
• Release date: August 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781101947470 (1101947470)
• First published: July 7, 2016
• Author: A.S. Byatt
• Genres: art, biography, history, essays, architecture, memoir
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

About The Book

From the Booker Prize-winning author: a ravishing, intimate, richly illustrated meditation on two astonishingly original artists whose work — and remarkable lives — have obsessed her for years.

William Morris and Mariano Fortuny were born decades apart in the 19th century. Morris, a wealthy Englishman, was a designer beloved for his floral patterns that grace wallpaper, serving ware, upholstery, and countless other objects even today; Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat, is now less recognized but was revolutionary in his time, in his ideas about everything from theatrical lighting to women’s fashion. Though seeming opposites, these two men of genius and driving energy have long presented a tantalizing juxtaposition to A. S. Byatt; in this delightful book she delves into how their work converses with her across space and time. At once personal, critical, and historical, Peacock & Vine is a gorgeously illustrated tour of their private and public worlds: the women who were their muses; their eccentrically curated homes; the alluring works themselves, and above all what it means to this one brilliant and curious writer, whose signature gift for rendering character and place enlivens every page. Rich with insight and color, this book is itself a work of art, one to savor and treasure.

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