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Jonathan Black is an art historian, and reading him is rather like visiting a major exhibition in the company of its curator. No such collection as this, embracing the work of painters, sculptors, photographers, and cartoonists, has ever been assembled before … Enjoyable though it is to browse through the pictures, the substance of the book lies in the text, which is both scholarly and original.
Jonathan Black is an art historian, and reading him is rather like visiting a major exhibition in the company of its curator. No such collection as this, embracing the work of painters, sculptors, photographers, and cartoonists, has ever been assembled before … Enjoyable though it is to browse through the pictures, the substance of the book lies in the text, which is both scholarly and original.
Full credit to Jonathan Black for spotting a significant gap in the exhaustive, indeed excessive, literature on Winston Churchill: his changing image in art. This book admirably qualifies as "iconography" not only as art historians mean it ... but also as a scholarly yet page-turning study of a veritable twentieth-century icon ... I give Jonathan Black a V for Victory sign.
[A] brisk and enjoyable biography through images.
Unreservedly recommended, not only to librarians, but as a fine present for a Churchill buff, or for that matter anyone interested in the perception of ‘The Greatest Briton of All Time’.
This well-written, well-researched and beautifully produced book covers every conceivable angle in the relationship between Winston Churchill and Art, often in surprising and inspiring ways. I didn’t think there was anything new to be said about Churchill, but Jonathan Black has certainly managed it.
The lure of the enigmatic and ever charismatic Winston Churchill, as seen through the eyes of Britain’s leading artists throughout the nation’s most turbulent century, and expertly collated and analysed here by Jonathan Black, makes this long-overdue study irresistible.
In this definitive study Jonathan Black examines the myriad representations made of Sir Winston Churchill over the course of the 20th century and into our own era. Black cogently analyses this evolving imagery in relation to Churchill’s tumultuous political career and its aftermath, from his period as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War One to the struggle to define the ‘myth’ of Churchill following his death in 1965. This lavishly illustrated book is a wonderful and timely addition to the vast literature on the life and legacy of Winston Churchill.
Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.
Jonathan Black is an art historian, and reading him is rather like visiting a major exhibition in the company of its curator. No such collection as this, embracing the work of painters, sculptors, photographers, and cartoonists, has ever been assembled before … Enjoyable though it is to browse through the pictures, the substance of the book lies in the text, which is both scholarly and original.
Full credit to Jonathan Black for spotting a significant gap in the exhaustive, indeed excessive, literature on Winston Churchill: his changing image in art. This book admirably qualifies as "iconography" not only as art historians mean it ... but also as a scholarly yet page-turning study of a veritable twentieth-century icon ... I give Jonathan Black a V for Victory sign.
[A] brisk and enjoyable biography through images.
Unreservedly recommended, not only to librarians, but as a fine present for a Churchill buff, or for that matter anyone interested in the perception of ‘The Greatest Briton of All Time’.
This well-written, well-researched and beautifully produced book covers every conceivable angle in the relationship between Winston Churchill and Art, often in surprising and inspiring ways. I didn’t think there was anything new to be said about Churchill, but Jonathan Black has certainly managed it.
The lure of the enigmatic and ever charismatic Winston Churchill, as seen through the eyes of Britain’s leading artists throughout the nation’s most turbulent century, and expertly collated and analysed here by Jonathan Black, makes this long-overdue study irresistible.
In this definitive study Jonathan Black examines the myriad representations made of Sir Winston Churchill over the course of the 20th century and into our own era. Black cogently analyses this evolving imagery in relation to Churchill’s tumultuous political career and its aftermath, from his period as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War One to the struggle to define the ‘myth’ of Churchill following his death in 1965. This lavishly illustrated book is a wonderful and timely addition to the vast literature on the life and legacy of Winston Churchill.
Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.