The catalogue for an exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington in 1997, this text investigates Stanley Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context and emphasizes the links between his life and his paintings.
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The catalogue for an exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum in Washington in 1997, this text investigates Stanley Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context and emphasizes the links between his life and his paintings.
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Good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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VG/VG (light foxing to upper block, overall light shelfwear but pages are clean) Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, white spine with black lettering, gg 194 pp., profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied a traveling exhibition organized by the British Council and the Hirshhorn Museum, which appeared at the Hirshhorn Museum, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Includes a lengthy essay and extensive annotations. "Stanley Spencer, a central figure in the current revival of European figurative painting, is among the most important English painters of the twentieth century. In this book, Fiona MacCarthy investigates Spencer's life, sets his work in its cultural context, and emphasises the links between his life and his paintings. With the extensive commentary-edited from Spencer's own writings-on each of the stunning reproductions of Spencer's paintings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of a profoundly original artist and his work."--Jacket.
