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Stanley Spencer - Journey to Burghclere
Paul Gough
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Description for Stanley Spencer - Journey to Burghclere
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 65 colour and black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACBN; ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1302.
Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in his paintings of sex and religion, the heavenly and the ordinary. In 1915, Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months, he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplies around the vast, former lunatic asylum. In ... Read more
Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in his paintings of sex and religion, the heavenly and the ordinary. In 1915, Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months, he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplies around the vast, former lunatic asylum. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Sansom & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904537588
SKU
V9781904537588
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Ref
99-3
About Paul Gough
Author biography: Paul Gough, painter, broadcaster and writer, is Dean of the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England. His research interests lie in the processes and iconography of commemoration, the visual culture of the Great War, and the representation of peace and conflict in the 20th/21st centuries.
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