To the Kwai-and Back: War Drawings, 1939-1945

To the Kwai - and Back. War Drawings 1939 - 1945

History

RONALD SEARLE

Military

The Atlantic Monthly Press

A story featuring the trials and tribulations of Nigel Molesworth at St Custards school. Using his own brand of outrageous spelling, it includes his advice on how to cope with "bulies, snekes, grown-ups and other chizzes".

Back in the Jug Agane (Armada Lions)

Geoffrey Willans

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year's Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing 'to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead'. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication. The story of Monica's survival against the odds and the part played by the encouragement of her husband will move many people who have either experienced cancer for themselves or been affected through a close family member or friend.

Les Tres Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

Blue Door

More cats

Dennis Dobson

Dust jacket notes: "From fur factories to chain stores -- a witty and irreverent glance at the three-hundred-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company, North America's oldest continuing commercial enterprise."

The Great Fur Opera : Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970

Kildare Dobbs

McClelland and Stewart

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Contemporary

Dobson Books Ltd

Ronald Searle, along with Andre Francois and Saul Steinberg, is internationally acknowledged as being one of the great graphic satirists of our time. He is also one of the most original draughtsmen to have emerged this century, and he has had a considerable influence on pictorial humour. This splendidly witty album, the first substantial study of Searle, draws on his work in the last ten years (most of it previously unpublished), to reveal just how varied and subtle is his art. Ronald Searle's articulate and very personal way of expressing himself in line brought him early fame and, whilst still in his twenties, he was acclaimed as having 'effected a one-man revolution in the world of visual humour'. This prodigy of the 1950s did not burn out as rapidly as he rose, for today, forty-three years after his first appearance in print at the age of fifteen, he has successfully extended his activities to include film animation, printmaking, painting and three-dimensional work in clay. But he works always with wit, never losing sight of his main purpose, to caricature. Whether he likes it or not, Searle's work has slid under the jealously-guarded fence of the 'fine arts', but always with a laugh, however wry. Two experts (and friends) examine the man and his work: Professor Henning Bock's introduction is based on some years of professional and personal acquaintance; and Pierre Dehaye, Director of the French Mint, with whom Searle has realized a number of projects, examines the humorist from another angle. In addition, an illustrated chapter of unexpectedly revealing biographical notes helps to fill in the picture. For the record, Searle's basic work from 1939 is extensively documented. Nevertheless, to be pedantic about humour (or a humorist) is ridiculous in itself. It should not be forgotten that the subject of this book is laughter and that it sets out to achieve two purposes: to present the work of a unique artist and also to provide entertainment. 233 pages.

Ronald Searle

Dehaye, Pierre

Mayflower

Ronald Searle's Golden Oldies 1941-1961

Ronald Searle's golden oldies, 1941-1961

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Pavilion Books

Ah Yes, I Remember it Well.: Paris, 1961-75

Europe

Marquis De Sade Meets Goody

Pavilion - Chrysalis

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