David jones biography
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A gorgeous addition to the growing interest in David Jones, lavishly illustrated with his dreamy engravings and watercolours… Dilworth’s meticulous, richly detailed biography is the perfect introduction to a notoriously difficult poet and a painter with a lightness of touch to stand beside Marc Chagall and Raoul Dufy.
Pretty well the perfect biography. It does justice to an artist who has been quite unaccountably overlooked by posterity; perhaps being a genius in several modes – painting, engraving, poetry – confuses critics… A wonderful life.
It is lavishly illustrated and wonderfully well written.
Thomas Dilworth, the leading scholar of Jones’s work, has already devoted several books to re-establishing his genius. Now, David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet – a biography 30 years in the making – offers the fullest portrait we are ever likely to have. Thanks to Dilworth’s fastidious attention to detail (a quality he shares with his subject), it
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David Jones (painter)
Welsh painter and prize-winning poet (1895–1974)
Walter David JonesCH (1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was a British painter and modernist poet. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and djur, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century.[1] Jones's work gains form from his Christian faith and Welsh heritage.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Jones was born at Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road. His father, James Jones, was born in Flintshire in north Wales, to a Welsh-speaking family, but he was discouraged from speaking Welsh by his father, who believed that habitual use of the language might hold his child back in a career. James J
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Davy Jones (musician)
British actor and singer (1945–2012)
For the jazz musician, see David Jones (jazz musician).
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| Born | David Thomas Jones (1945-12-30)30 December 1945 Longsight, Manchester, England |
| Died | 29 February 2012(2012-02-29) (aged 66) Stuart, Florida, US |
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| Years active | 1961–2012 |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Website | davyjones.net |
David Thomas Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) was an English actor, singer, and songwriter. Best known as a member of the band the Monkees and