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The Face of Britain - The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits (Paperback)
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The Face of Britain - The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits (Paperback)
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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 exhibition Churchill 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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