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Distortion and Love - An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer (Paperback)
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Distortion and Love - An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer (Paperback)
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In this ground-breaking book, a theory of 'distortion' - of the way
in which the processes of human life are subject to interference,
diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of
one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century painters and that art's
public reception. Devoted to his native village of
Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and
portraits with loving detail but also the 'memory-feelings' which
he felt were a 'sacred' part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was
also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that
his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even
marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision,
how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to
communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and
have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits
distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and
of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and
have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put
into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective
appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we
accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An
illustration, through Stanley Spencer's story, of significant
aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across
disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer's
work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in
creativity, perception and interpretation.
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