Fine.
The first book from the Incline Press. A celebration of the life and work of Enid Marx, who in 1925 walked away from the Royal Academy without graduating, after being told that her work was too ‘vulgar’ for her examiners tastes. There cannot be any doubt that Marx had the last laugh; Inspired by both British folk traditions and Paul Nash’s abstract modernism, she became one of the great decorative designers of the twentieth century, and had a lasting effect particularly on the development of patterned textiles. She was finally awarded an honorary degree from the Royal College of art in 1982.
The bold outlines of her illustrations for the 1938 Zodiac Book of Nursery Rhymes, from which the Incline Press took the present wood engravings, are reminiscent of early modern chapbooks, and perfectly summarise her belief in the significance of British folk art.
