Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern
Lund Humphries , In association with Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park, 2018
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-170) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Enid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid twentieth century. Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the ‘outbreak of talent’ at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, she excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme.
After making a significant contribution to book illustration, she went on to design postage stamps and patterns for laminates, becoming a Royal Designer for Industry and an advocate for better design training and industrial patronage. In parallel, with her friend the historian Margaret Lambert, she formed a collection of ‘Popular Art’, which was bequeathed to Compton Verney in Warwickshire, where it is an increasingly popular attraction.
Alan Powers has selected words and images from Marx’s extensive archive to create a rounded picture of her distinctive achievement. High-quality reproductions of a wide variety of designs illuminate Marx’s versatility, high
spirits and reconciliation of modernity and tradition through a rare gift for pattern making.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Talent breaks out
- 2. Block printing
- 3. Design for industry
- 4. Paper and print
- 5. Popular Art: Of the people, for the people
- 6. Essential Marx
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Image Credits
- Index
by "Nielsen BookData"