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Love stories : art, passion and tragedy

Title
  1. Love stories : art, passion and tragedy / edited by Lucy Peltz and Louise Stewart.
Published by
  1. London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2020]

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Additional authors
  1. Peltz, Lucy
  2. Stewart, Louise (Curator)
  3. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.
Description
  1. 231 pages : illustrations (color and black and white); 25 cm
Summary
  1. 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 topics including: the role of the muse, featuring stories such as George Romney, Lady Emma Hamilton and Nelson, and the Bloomsbury group; scandal and tragedy, exploring the relationships of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono; literary love, highlighting the tales of 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 explores the stories of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and Mick and Bianca Jagger.0'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.00Exhibition: touring to Australia, USA and Hong Kong from Summer 2020.
Subject
  1. Portraits
  2. Love in art
  3. Couples in art
  4. Portraits > Exhibitions
  5. Love in art > Exhibitions
  6. Couples in art > Exhibitions
Call number
  1. JQF 20-1152
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Title
  1. Love stories : art, passion and tragedy / edited by Lucy Peltz and Louise Stewart.
Publisher
  1. London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2020]
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Added author
  1. Peltz, Lucy, editor.
  2. Stewart, Louise (Curator), editor.
  3. National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution.
ISBN
  1. 1855147033 hardback
  2. 9781855147034 hardback
Research call number
  1. JQF 20-1152
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