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'From where you are, you can hear their dreams.' Internationally acclaimed for its eccentricity and adored for its lovelorn lyricism, Dylan Thomas's groundbreaking 1954 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood, has long echoed in the imagination of the founding father of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake. An obsession that has spanned almost thirty years, this 'greenleaved sermon on the innocence of men' has filled the spaces of Blake's studio, played and replayed on broadcast recordings, and prompted several pilgrimages to Thomas's creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. All is 'strangely simple and simply strange' in the sleepy Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, as the dreams, fantasies and realities of the inhabitants unfold across the cycle of one spring day. At once a lively and humorous depiction of the butchers, bakers, preachers and children, of Captain Cat, Nogood Boyo and Polly Garter - with a ribaldry in which Blake delights - it is also a modern pastoral tale on a Chaucerian scale, a quest for innocence and purity of utterance in a 'darkest-before-dawn' world. Revealed here for the very first time with the definitive play text are the 'dismays and rainbows' of this great artist's richly detailed sequences of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and collages, comprising one of his most distinctive and significant single bodies of work.Product Identifiers
PublisherEnitharmon Editions
ISBN-139781907587610
eBay Product ID (ePID)202184883
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnder Milk Wood
AuthorPeter Blake, Dylan Thomas
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
Number of Pages176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height250mm
Item Width300mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDylan Thomas, Peter Blake
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 11 Jun, 2020
Thomas & Blake. A match made in heaven
A fantastic book combining Dlan Thomas' wonderful words and Peter Blake's compelling images.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 May, 2017
Peter Blake illuminates Dylan Thomas brilliance
Always liked Thomas, Blake and Under Milk Wood. This book is a work of art and fabulous imagination!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Dec, 2020
Fascinating book
A fab book for fansVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
