Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy

Louise Stewart and Peter Funnell

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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 topics, including: the role of the muse, featuring stories such as George Romney, Lady Emma Hamilton and Nelson, and the Bloomsbury group; scandal and tragedy, exploring the relationships of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono; literary love, highlighting the tales of 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 explores the 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.

Louise Stewartisa Curator, 16th Century to Contemporary Collections, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the curator of a number of major projects, including the Gallery’s flagship international touring exhibition, Tudors to Windsors.

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

Publisher
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN
9781855147034
Binding
Hardback
Page Extent
224
Weight (kg)
1.1
Height (in)
9.76
Width (in)
7.72
Subject
Art , Art Reference, History & Theory
Published Date
10 / 09 / 2020

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