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Love Stories (Hardcover)
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Love Stories (Hardcover)
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The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits
of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive
collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the
people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent
scholarship, the exhibition will explore changing ideas of love,
and give readers the opportunity to discover love stories both
tragic and transcendent. The stories cover a variety of
topicsincluding: the role of the muse,featuring stories such as
George Romney, Lady Emma Hamilton and Nelson,and the Bloomsbury
group; scandal and tragedy, exploringthe relationshipsof Oscar
Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson,and
John Lennon and Yoko Ono; literary love,highlightingthe talesof
Mary and Percy Shelley,and Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; a shared
studio, featuring the stories of artists Lee Miller and Man Ray,and
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson;and love and the lens,which
exploresthe stories of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh,and Mick
and Bianca Jagger. Love Stories will be brought to life through the
perspective of various authors, using material from the sitter's
own letters, diaries and poetry, while highlighting their
connection and influence on some of the greatest masterpieces of
art.
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