The Face Of Britain: A History Of The Nation Through Its Portraits by Simon Schama

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.

Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Year:	2016
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780190621872
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy.

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SKU: 1600854
Location: History