Love Stories

Author : Louise Stewart

Hardback

Published : Thursday 10 September 2020

ISBN : 9781855147034

Price : €35.04

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Love Stories

by Louise Stewart

Hardback

10 Sep 2020

ART
>> Subjects AND Themes

€35.04

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Description

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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