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The Face of Britain

Hardcover • 2015 • English

The Face of Britain

By Simon Schama

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780670922291

Publisher

Viking

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

The Face of Britain

Format

Hardcover

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