Winston Churchill in British art, 1900 to the present day : the titan with many faces / Jonathan Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jonathan, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Portraits.

Churchill, Winston.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Caricatures and cartoons.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Influence.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--20th century.

History.

Portraits, British.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Caricatures and cartoons.

History.

Portraits.

Caricatures.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

"Explores the public image of Churchill in visual art, from oil paintings to sculpture to political cartoons, including Churchill's complicity in the production of such images and his posthumous representations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the titan emerges

Young Winston : at war and in politics, 1898-1914

Disaster and rehabilitation in the First World War, 1914-1918

Churchill's roaring twenties : from liberal to conservative

Churchill's 'wilderness years' : the 1930s

Finest hour? : Churchill and the Second World War, 1939-1945

Churchill as Cold War leader of the opposition and as prime minister, 1945-1955

Churchill's twilight years : retirement to finis, 1955-1965

Churchill's visual legacy : memorials, 1965-1999

Epilogue : Churchill for the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-276) and index.

ISBN:

9781472592392

1472592395

9781472592385

1472592387

OCLC:

953175672