Fields of Marks: The Life and Work of Milan Ivanič

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Fields of Marks is about the life of the artist, Milan Ivanič, told as much through pictures as through words. It begins with his childhood as ‘the boy who couldn’t stop drawing’ in the 1950s in the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, and his life-changing decision to leave in 1970 for a future with the author in Britain.

Roz Ivanič blends the story of her and Milan’s lives with details of his working practices as an artist. Every page of the narrative is illustrated with Milan’s paintings, drawings and prints: an effusion of marks, lines and colours bringing a vivid immediacy to the words on the page.