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Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings
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by Mary Soames, David Coombs, Minnie Churchill, and Winston, Sir Churchill
Sales Rank: 711651
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$21.95
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on 6-16-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
ISBN 10 Number: 0762420812
ASIN: B000C4SRPO
Book Dimensions:
12.4 x 9.3 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 3.7 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
After Churchill was forced to resign from the WWI British government in 1915 at the age of 40, he took up oils and dived almost completely into painting. Sir Winston certainly didnt experiment much beyond shifting subject matters, but the "painting muse" that supposedly carried him out of his retirement depression seems to have been an overwhelming, transcendent influence on his later years. Published with the full cooperation of Churchills family, this impressive 9" x 12" book offers a large-scale retrospective of the grand statesmans paintings. Its 500 full-color and black and white reproductions and photographs are displayed smoothly throughout the glossy pages and described by precisely detailed captions. Coombs, former editor of The Antique Collector and a lifetime fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, provides historical background and political context for the sometimes-vivid oil paintings. Culled from Churchills first days of painting at his Sulley farmhouse (and holidays in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, the French Riviera and the United States), the paintings reflect a sincere interest in the meditative process of art-making, and are reminiscent of Monet, Cézanne and, when Churchill is at his best, perhaps Bonnard. Most are impressionistic landscapes or floral still lifes, along with the occasional portrait, such as one done in 1955 of Sir Winstons wife, Clementine Churchill, and others of various secretaries or political colleagues. The enthusiastic foreword is written by Churchills only surviving child, Mary Soames. Two of Churchills essays seek to explain the impetus behind the political giants second life. As he put it: "We may content ourselves with a joy-ride in a paint-box."
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From Booklist
"Damn good," said art critic Harry S Truman of a 1958 exhibition of Winston Churchill's paintings, and viewers can declaim as they wish on Churchill's artistic skill, thanks to this comprehensive album of his output. Churchill himself was modest and made no pretense to excellence, regarding his hobby as just that, a serene distraction from the pressures of political life. The authors have reprinted Churchill's 1921 article "Painting as a Pastime," in which Churchill extolled amateur painting as a physical activity ("Just to paint is great fun") as much as for its aesthetic satisfaction. He picked up brush and palette in 1915, and his first efforts were indeed no great shakes--though of biographical interest as they depicted his post on the Western Front. But he worked to improve his technique until he could turn out an accomplished landscape, although the human form often eluded him. A chronology and captions explain the paintings' locales, and photographs show Churchill at the easel in this sunny, colorful treasure for the Churchillian set. Gilbert Taylor
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