- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (9 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691090246
- ISBN-13: 978-0691090245
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.1 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,197,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of the most highly regarded and well known of all twentieth-century British artists, Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) is famous for two things. He immortalized the Berkshire village of Cookham, where he was born and spent most of his life. And he celebrated sex both on his canvases and through his unconventional understanding of relationships.
Perhaps best known for his paintings of biblical subjects set in and around Cookham--in particular, The Resurrection, Cookham--Spencer was also an official war artist during both World Wars. In his paintings and in his life, he reveled in the intense ordinariness of the world he inhabited. His mature art fuses things most often thought of as separate: religion and sex, the real and the imaginary, public and private, the young and the old, the self and others.
In this excellent introduction to the artist and his work, Kitty Hauser reveals how Spencer's art grew out of places, experiences, and social relations that enriched his imagination. Though Spencer is often described as visionary, this book shows that his brand of mysticism was firmly grounded in material reality--in landscapes, homes, and the human relationships he felt so strongly.
About the Author
Kitty Hauser is an art historian whose work has been published widely, including in the Burlington Magazine and the New Left Review. She won the Bernard Denvir Memorial Award for Art Criticism in 1999.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an easy to follow account of life and work of Stanley Spencer- well illustrated and interweaving the significance of Cookham and his own artist output. Brings to life both the parochiality of the subject set against the universality of the Christian themes expressed in the art. Highly recommended.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Hauser's book is an excellent guide to the debates surrounding Spencer. It is the most fair-minded account of Spencer's preoccupations that I have come across, and certainly the most beautifully written. In conclusion, then, it blew me away.
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