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Published: 1st August 2011
ISBN: 9781849432108
Number Of Pages: 96
Augustus John's ability as a portrait artist won him the admiration of fellow artists, public recognition and the Order of Merit. William Douglas-Home's play presents various points in the Bohemian artist's turbulent life from 1944 - 1961 through a reconstruction of sittings with three of his subjects (all played by the same actor)-General Bernard Montgomery, fellow artist Mathew Smith and designer Cecil Beaton. This keenly observed, sensitive play is finely interwoven with the thread of John's gradually developing pacifism-from his certainty in spring 1944 that Monty's young ADC will not survive the second front, to war's devastating effect on Matthew Smith, to John's vibrant fear of the nuclear nightmare and his own approaching death.
ISBN: 9781849432108
ISBN-10: 1849432104
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 96
Published: 1st August 2011
Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20.32 x 12.7
x 0.64
Weight (kg): 0.23
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