EAN: 9780670922307

THE FACE OF BRITAIN - SIMON SCHAMA KARTONIERT (TB)

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 exhibitionChurchill 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.

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