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Paul Gough - Stanley Spencer

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Sansom, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 203. In Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere, Paul Gough details and interprets Stanley Spencer's journey from cosseted family life in Cookham, through the menial drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his unique visions of peace and resurrection in a memorial chapel in Hampshire.This journey started quietly in 1915 when Stanley Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Medical Corps. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplied around the vast lunatic asylum-cum-hospital known as 'The Beaufort' in Bristol. In 1916 he signed up for overseas duty in Macedonia, where he saw violent action up to the eve of the Armistice.Five years after the war, Spencer started making large drawings of a possible memorial scheme based on his wartime experiences. Impressed by his extraordinary vision and his commitment to realise it in paint, the Behrend family became his patrons, funding a purpose-built memorial chapel at Burghclere, a few miles south of Newbury. For five years he toiled, often on top of a giant scaffold, to produce the painted chapel that is now regarded as his masterpiece. Unflinching in its detail, celebratory in its love for the common man, and joyous in the celebration of earthly redemption, the chapel is one of the unsung artistic glories of Europe.Using his own letters, illustrations and paintings, the book locates Spencer's work alongside other soldier-artists of the time and shows how his war experiences of 'innocence, fall and redemption' derived from his personal story as orderly, soldier and patient. ISBN: 9781904537588. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
EUR 30.00 [Appr.: US$ 32.1 | £UK 25.75 | JP¥ 5033] Book number 2403812

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