The Face of Britain: The Stories Behind the Nation’s Portraits
Autor Simon Schamaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 oct 2016
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 they build into a collective picture of Britain, our past and our present, a look into the mirror of our identity at a moment when we are wondering just who we are.
Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, Schama's extraordinary storytelling reveals the truth behind the nation's most famous portrayals of power, love, fame, the self, and the people. Mesmerising in its breadth and its panache, and beautifully illustrated, with more than 150 images from the National Portrait Gallery,The Face of Britainwill change the way we see our past - and ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780670922307
ISBN-10: 0670922307
Pagini: 632
Ilustrații: 100 full colour pictures
Dimensiuni: 143 x 231 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0670922307
Pagini: 632
Ilustrații: 100 full colour pictures
Dimensiuni: 143 x 231 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Simon
Schama
is
University
Professor
of
Art
History
and
History
at
Columbia
University
and
the
prize-winning
author
of
seventeen
books,
includingThe
Embarrassment
of
Riches,Citizens,Landscape
and
Memory,Rembrandt's
Eyes,
theHistory
of
Britaintrilogy
andThe
Story
of
the
Jews.
He
is
a
contributing
editor
of
theFinancial
Timesand
his
award-winning
television
work
as
writer
and
presenter
for
the
BBC
includes
the
fifteen-partA
History
of
Britainand
the
eight-part,
Emmy-winningPower
of
Art.
Recenzii
Schama's
greatest
gift
is
a
sure
eye
for
an
extraordinary
story...This
isn't
what
you
get
from
conventional
historians
or
conventional
art
writers,
more's
the
pity...Schama
has
written
books
which
will
still
be
bought
and
talked
about
a
century
from
nowand
he
hasn't
lost
an
ounce
of
zest
or
intelligence.
Damn
him...
He knows the history, the biography, and the art history...he made me look and learn.He is a great storyteller and we learn something new on every page.
All of these lives rendered withan acuity of detail that could rival the best of portraitists... describing Lawrence's portrait of Wilberforce, Schama calls the painting a work of "transforming empathy". That phrase could be true of his storytelling throughout this book.
Simon Schama's richly illustrated history of Britain in portraits isa work of dazzling panache... a book to devour.
He has animated our portraits superlatively.One of our most in-demand public intellectuals has deftly ventriloquised his talking heads.
Wonderfully compelling ... what this book, full of unhackneyed paintings and unfamiliar stories, shows is thatwhen Schama is at his best he can see straight through people.
Rich in its variety of subjects ...poignantly memorable
Some of the best writing on British portraiture I have read.
He is bothan inspired communicator of detail and context, an excitable and exciting critic and a sleeve-tugging gossip.The idea of portraiture is a perfect vehicle for his detailed imagination...the subjects of the portraits become uncannily alive.
Viewers of his TV shows know what a passionate presenter of his subject - art history - Simon Schama is.He button-holes your eye on his inward voyage of imagination. He does it as compulsively on the page as on screen... I welcome back in this book history as people - people whose characters can be read in their fascinating faces.
Inspiring ... Schama tells it with panache,weaving facts and anecdotes into a vivid history.
Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict
With Schama you look at a picture andsee it as you hadn't before
Splendid,spirited,immensely enjoyableandwide-ranging
Shows Schama at his best . . .as full of memorable incident as a Bellow novel and wittier than a Woody Allen movie
Schama writes with grace and wit, and his enthusiasms are contagious
Dazzling, beyond praise
Splendid... seething with ideas.Schama brings great intimacy and authority to proceedings
He knows the history, the biography, and the art history...he made me look and learn.He is a great storyteller and we learn something new on every page.
All of these lives rendered withan acuity of detail that could rival the best of portraitists... describing Lawrence's portrait of Wilberforce, Schama calls the painting a work of "transforming empathy". That phrase could be true of his storytelling throughout this book.
Simon Schama's richly illustrated history of Britain in portraits isa work of dazzling panache... a book to devour.
He has animated our portraits superlatively.One of our most in-demand public intellectuals has deftly ventriloquised his talking heads.
Wonderfully compelling ... what this book, full of unhackneyed paintings and unfamiliar stories, shows is thatwhen Schama is at his best he can see straight through people.
Rich in its variety of subjects ...poignantly memorable
Some of the best writing on British portraiture I have read.
He is bothan inspired communicator of detail and context, an excitable and exciting critic and a sleeve-tugging gossip.The idea of portraiture is a perfect vehicle for his detailed imagination...the subjects of the portraits become uncannily alive.
Viewers of his TV shows know what a passionate presenter of his subject - art history - Simon Schama is.He button-holes your eye on his inward voyage of imagination. He does it as compulsively on the page as on screen... I welcome back in this book history as people - people whose characters can be read in their fascinating faces.
Inspiring ... Schama tells it with panache,weaving facts and anecdotes into a vivid history.
Schama has a masterly ability to conjure up character and vivify conflict
With Schama you look at a picture andsee it as you hadn't before
Splendid,spirited,immensely enjoyableandwide-ranging
Shows Schama at his best . . .as full of memorable incident as a Bellow novel and wittier than a Woody Allen movie
Schama writes with grace and wit, and his enthusiasms are contagious
Dazzling, beyond praise
Splendid... seething with ideas.Schama brings great intimacy and authority to proceedings