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The Face Of Britain
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Author : Simon Schama
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-16
The Face Of Britain written by Simon Schama and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Art categories.
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 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 Britain will change the way we see our past - and ourselves.
The Face Of Britain
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Author : Simon Schama
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
The Face Of Britain written by Simon Schama and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art categories.
Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of nation and its history. "Portraits," Schama writes, "have always been made with an eye to posterity." Commissioned to paint Winston Churchill in 1954, Graham Sutherland struggled with how to capture the "savior" of Great Britain honestly and humanely. Schama calls the portrait, initially damned, the "most powerful image of a Great Briton ever executed." Annie Leibovitz's photograph of a nude John Lennon kissing Yoko Ono, taken five hours before his murder, bears "a weight of poignancy she could not possibly have anticipated." Hans Holbein's preparatory sketch for a portrait of Henry VIII depicts "an unstoppable engine of dynastic generation." Here are expressions from across the centuries of normalcy and heroism, beauty and disfigurement, aristocracy and deprivation, the familiar and the obscure-the faces of courtesans, warriors, workers, activists, playwrights, the high and mighty as well as pub-crawlers. Linking them is Schama's vibrant exploration of how their connective power emerges from the dynamic between subject and artist, work and viewer, time and place. Schama's compelling analysis and impassioned evocation of these works create an unforgettable verbal mosaic that at once reveals and transforms the images he places before us. Lavishly illustrated and written with the storytelling brio that is Schama's trademark, The Face of Britain invites us to look at a nation's visual legacies and find its reflection.
The Face Of Britain
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Author : Laurence Dudley, Stamp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
The Face Of Britain written by Laurence Dudley, Stamp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.
Face Of Britain
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Author : Robin McKie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Face Of Britain written by Robin McKie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with British categories.
Written into our facial features is a story going back generations. it is the story of who we are and where we are from - the history of Britain through war and conquest, migration and racial integration. The Channel 4 series, The Face of Britain, begins with the largest ever research project into the genetic make-up of the British public. The Welcome Trust has given a £2million grant to Oxford geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer to take DNA samples from hundreds of volunteers throughout Britain and find tell-tale fragments of DNA that reveal the biological traces of successive waves of colonisers - Celts, Saxons, Vikings, etc. - in various parts of Britain. These traces in part determine our facial features. In effect, this project will produce a genetic map of our islands revealing where today's Cornish or East Anglians originally came from. The project is unique in that it uses cutting edge technology to question our accepted notions of our history. Added to this, the series and the book will meld science, history and personal stories to investigate our linguistic history, our surnames and placenames and compare findings with the results of the Bodmer study. The Face of Britain will be a launch pad to explore Britain's earliest history while investigating why we look the way we do.
Portrait Of Britain Volume 3
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Author : Hoxton Mini Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Portrait Of Britain Volume 3 written by Hoxton Mini Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Photography categories.
Coming at a pivotal time in UK politics, Portrait of Britain, the British Journal of Photography's annual photography exhibition, is back for 2019 and Hoxton Mini Press will once again be producing the accompanying publication. The winning photographs from this open-call competition are selected by a panel of expert judges and will be displayed on digital billboard screens nationwide at the same time as the book's launch where they are seen by over 10 million people. These captivating portraits celebrate the diversity, culture and identity of Britain at a critical time in its history.
A History Of Britain Volume 1
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Author : Simon Schama
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-31
A History Of Britain Volume 1 written by Simon Schama and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with History categories.
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it? Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I. The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.
The Changing Face Of Britain From The Air
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Author : Leslie Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 1989
The Changing Face Of Britain From The Air written by Leslie Gardiner and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Great Britain categories.
A History Of Britain
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Author : Simon Schama
language : en
Publisher: London : BBC ; Toronto : M & S
Release Date : 2000
A History Of Britain written by Simon Schama and has been published by London : BBC ; Toronto : M & S this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Great Britain categories.
The first volume in this history of Britain tells the story of Britain from the time of the earliest settlements discovered in the Orkneys to the death of Queen Elizabeth the first.
Faces Of Britain
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Author : Elizabeth Laird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Faces Of Britain written by Elizabeth Laird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Portrait Of Britain Volume 4
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Author : Hoxton Mini Press
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Portrait Of Britain Volume 4 written by Hoxton Mini Press and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with categories.
This, the fourth volume in the British Journal of Photography and Hoxton Mini Press' collaborative series, brings together 200 portraits from all over our island that show Britain at a time of collective regrouping. It createsh both a thoughtful reappraisal of our recent past, and reveals the individuals both loudly and quietly changing the future. It is published in support of 1854 Media's annual award, Portrait of Britain, which sees the finest portraits taken in the nation in recent years tour the country via JCDecaux digital billboards.