Farmers Year

Leighton, Clare

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Epic and beautiful vision of rural England that has a become a unique record of the toils and triumphs of farm labourers before World War II

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Publish Date: 01/11/2018
ISBN: 9781908213679 Categories: , Tag:

Description

In the early 1930s Clare Leighton began work on a sequence of wood engravings depicting traditional farming in England over the course of a calendar year. The country was in the grips of the Great Depression. Unemployment had doubled. Hunger marches were beginning to spread through towns and cities. Machines were replacing men and women on the land. Already established as one of the most about the editor: Clare Leighton (1898-1989) was born in London and studied at Brighton, Slade and Central schools of art. Travel in Europe nurtured an empathy for rural workers and their culture, reflected in much of her work. An accomplished writer, Clare Leighton was encouraged to write a series of sketches to accompany the twelve engravings she produced. The Farmer’s Year was the result, published in 1933 to great acclaim in Britain and North America, running to three impressions by February 1934.

Additional information

Weight 175 g
Dimensions 244 × 286 × 10 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

60

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

630.942 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K