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Includes many of Searle's favourites - St. Trinians Girls' School Gang and Molesworth as well as many illustrations produced for 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'.
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This comprehensive and richly illustrated biography chronicles the life and work of the well-known British cartoonist, who turned 70 in 1990. The offspring of Searle's macabre imagination are here, including the wicked schoolgirls of St. Trinians, the spindly, goggle-eyed people caught up in all manner of grotesque and exasperating predicaments, the roguish animals and the demented-looking public figures. Davies examines the many sobering events in Searle's life that have influenced his art--his complicated relationship with his first wife and children, his second wife's near-fatal battle with cancer and his long incarceration in a Japanese prison camp in Singapore during WW II, which he documented in graphically detailed drawings. There are many black-and-white and color reproductions of the artist's work, as well as photographs of Searle and his family, and the descriptive captions that freelance journalist Davies provides for the illustrations are as illuminating as his well researched and very readable text.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ronald Searle is perhaps England's most famous cartoonist, and the professionals' choice. Ask any contemporary cartoonist who is the greatest in the post-war era and the unanimous reply will probably be - Ronald Searle! The son of a railwayman, Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge on 3 March 1920, and educated in the town at the Boys' Central School. He started work as a solicitor's clerk, and then joined the hire purchase department of the co-operative Society, studying in the evenings and later full-time at the Cambridge Daily News from the age of fifteen. Enlisting in the Royal Engineers at the outbreak of the Second World War, he spent time in Kirkcudbright, where he encountered evacuees from St. Trinian's, a progressive girls' school situated in Edinburgh. This resulted in his first cartoon for Lilliput, published in October 1941, and later developed into one of his most famous creations, through a series of books and their cinematic spin-offs. Remarkably, he survived the horrific experiences of the Changi Camp, Singapore as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and managed to produce a visual record of life in a prison camp.On his return to England in 1945, he exhibited the surviving pictures at the Cambridge School of Art, and published Forty Drawings. The exhibition and volume together established his reputation as one of Britain's most powerful draughtsmen, and led to several opportunities to record the atmosphere of post-war Europe. His contributed to Punch and these drawings crystallised in, The Female Approach (1949). Throughout the fifties, he produced a large variety of illustrations, which together seemed present a guide to life in Britain in the 1950's. Such was his success that his rejection of family and country in a move to Paris in 1961 came as a great surprise. However, it offered a fresh start, resulting in several solo shows, including a major exhibitions at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Berlin-Dahlem Museum and the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Hanover. He also reached a new audience with his contributions to film and television, most notably The Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965). Now remarried and living in rural France, Searle continues to work to his own uncompromising standard.More recent titles include Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (1982), The Illustrated Winespeak (1983), Ronald Searle's Non-Sexist Dictionary (1988), Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable (1989), The Tales of Grandpa Cat (1994) and Ronald Searle in Le Monde (2002). This fascinating book is a new edition of Russell Davies' definitive biography. It includes an updated exhibition listings and a bibliography. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR005358030
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. This fascinating book is a new edition (2003) of Russell Davies' definitive biography. It includes updated exhibition listings and a bibliography.This publication includes many of Searle's greatest illustrations; the St. Trinian's Girls' School gang and Molesworth as well as many illustrations produced for 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'. Condition: new, from the stocks of the Chris Beetles Gallery. 4to. 194pp. Seller Inventory # 103018
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