David Boyd Haycock
Autor de A Crisis of Brilliance
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David Boyd Haycock is a cultural historian. He has held research positions at Oxford University, UCLA, the London School of Economics and the National Maritime Museum.
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A fascinating overview of the young artists at the Slade School of art, just before and into WWI. Many linked into the Bloomsbury Group and their friends, as well as other 'groups' at the time. Their stories intertwined and overlapped in friendships and love affairs, and the darkness of mind and war.
I go to Cookham every year, and it really filled out my sense of Stanley Spencer's presence there. With his deep love and sense of that place, his home. The chapel is now a gallery with changing exhibitions of his work, there is a sculpture of him on the train station, and a plaque on his house. He is always in evidence. His painting 'Swan Upping' is a scene I know well.… (más)