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About the book >.>.> This is the first major publication on the life and work of one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century Ceri Richards bom in Walles in 1903 was a draughtsman of genius and a painter of rare energy and imagination. It was while he was at the Royal College of Art in London in the mid-1920s that his fiercely intelligent lifelong engagement with modem European painting began. He read and was deeply affected by Kandinsky and responded at the most profound level to Picasso Matisse and Ennst In the 1930s Richards made a number of relief constructions and paintings that constitute a major contribution to Surrealism and rank with the best European art of the period. A great deal of his work the 1940s gives a surrealist inflection to an apocalyptic imagery which identified the cataclysm of the war with the cydic drama of nature. In the late 1940s Richards developed an intensely lyrical vision of the everyday world in which brilliant colour refracted light and an exuberant visual music express a keen appreciation of the joy to be found in domestic and urban life. A gifted musician Richards was an artist unusually receptive to poetry and music. He made many powerful works on themes from the poetry of Dylan Thomas and in the 1950s and 1960s a series of great. semi-alostract seascapes inspired by La Cath?drale Engloutie which match the lyricism and sombre sonorities of Debussy’s prelude. (MP)