Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War (Imperial War Museum, London: Exhibition Catalogues) - Hardcover

Beaton, Cecil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224096303 ISBN 13: 9780224096300

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; 227 pages: chiefly illustrations (black and white, and colour); 32 cm. Summary; At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City and the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber and Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton's own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly elegant. Whatever his subject, Beaton was always a stylist. Beaton's wartime work for the Ministry amounted to seven thousand photographs, which are now housed with their negatives at the Imperial War Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war and of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert and on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi and Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese. Beaton's inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle and the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. "Theatre of War" is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition. Subjects; Beaton, Cecil 1904-1980 - Diaries. World War, 1939-1945 - Pictorial works. Individual photographers; Military history; Battles & campaigns; World history: Second World War. PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General. PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical. PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General.

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Críticas:

"One of the most beautiful books of the year." (Richard Dorment Telegraph)

"Showcases Beaton’s grittier side as he captured countries and cultures affected by the Second World War." (Esquire)

"This plush Coffee table book contains the old rogue’s finest work...an eye-catching record of Britain at war." (Shortlist)

"Touching and often harrowing." (Huffington Post)

"Beaton had a supreme understanding of life as theatre, and set out to document the conflict with the same dramatic intensity he had used to capture society girls in the late 1920s and 1930s." (World of Interiors)

Reseña del editor:

At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City and the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber and Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton's own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly elegant. Whatever his subject, Beaton was always a stylist.

Beaton's wartime work for the Ministry amounted to seven thousand photographs, which are now housed with their negatives at the Imperial War Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war and of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert and on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi and Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese.

Beaton's inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle and the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0224096303
• ISBN 13: 9780224096300
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228