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The Face of Britain

The Stories Behind the Nation¿s Portraits

Pocket
Engelsk
The Face of Britain
The Face of Britain
  • Forfatter: Simon Schama
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 632
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780670922307
  • Utgivelsesår: 2016
  • Bidragsyter: Schama, Simon
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Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition

Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century; the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn''t possess in life; a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle of the Somme; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death.

In the age of the hasty glance and the selfie, Simon Schama has written a tour de force about the long exchange of looks from which British portraits have been made over the centuries: images of the modest and the mighty; of friends and lovers; heroes and working people. Each of them - the image-maker, the subject, and the rest of us who get to look at them - are brought unforgettably to life. Together