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Love Stories

Love Stories

Art, Passion and Tragedy

by Louise StewartMarina Warner Kate Williams and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/09/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781855147034
9781855147034
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
National Portrait Gallery Publications
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
248x197x26mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Marina Warner

Marina Warner's study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE.

She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.

Kate Williams

Kate Williams is a historian and broadcaster. A specialist in modern history, royal and constitutional affairs, she's Professor of Modern History at Reading University. Kate has appeared often on BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Channel 5 News and Good Morning Britain.

She's also been on panel shows including The Quizeum, would I Lie To You, Hous of Games and Insert Name Here. She's won celebrity mastermind, talked on The Great british Back Off and has been part of Pointless Celebrities and Celebrity Antiquers Road Trip.

She is a NYT bestselling author and her books include Becoming Queen, The Pleasures of Men and Rival Queens.

Lucy Peltz

Lucy Peltz, Head of Collections Displays (Tudor to Regency) and Senior Curator, 18th Century Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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