Stanley Spencer (Text Only)

Stanley Spencer (Text Only)
Ken Pople

Stanley Spencer (1891 – 1959) has recently been recognised by a wide general public, as well as by art historians, as probably the greatest English painter of the twentieth century.His strange and thrilling settings of biblical and semi-biblical scenes, his grippingly realist portraits, his intense English landscapes, hang in pride of place in our national collections and fetch ever-escalating prices at auction. Although there have been many books about Spencer, Pople's biography is the first to give a thoroughly convincing and coherent account of the life and psyche of the man who produced these extraordinary pictures. Pople has not only had the co-operation of Spencer's daughters and remaining friends' he has had unrestricted access to the artist's letters, diaries and other writings, and has spent ten years unravelling the familiar but so often impenetrable mysteries we see on the canvas. His analysis demonstrates that there never was as artist for whom life and art were so much of a piece, and that without understanding Spencer's doings and circumstances, we have no hope of understanding his paintings.

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CONTENTS

Cover (#ucae07e0d-e8d7-5776-8b6a-78bc4d6ab20e)

Title Page (#ubf389518-9134-5009-aa2b-0edec629b892)

Copyright (#ulink_16f11d11-59df-57a6-b231-89475072a058)

Preamble (#ulink_89473b00-355b-5db9-b832-58e2f7fd950c)

Part One: The Early Cookham Years 1891–1915 (#ulink_b55a6d03-7cb1-5ef5-9c5f-d61f96d503e6)

1 The Coming of the Wise Men (#ulink_8ec092d6-8c3e-58df-a355-f12aca5663ea)

2 The Fairy on the Waterlily Leaf (#ulink_8cc91cf0-ae49-594c-81c3-be52424b9544)

3 John Donne Arriving in Heaven (#ulink_5cbc2bc0-a98e-54fb-9f05-bffe090ae074)

4 Apple Gatherers (#ulink_34d5ae30-f0fb-5fbe-a3c2-0b8df3595e2a)

5 The Nativity (#ulink_33f167f4-1ffe-5393-b5e5-1e8f2ff44e7b)

6 Self-Portrait, 1914 (#ulink_df687cee-32da-5453-88cf-b937f2293d8a)

7 The Centurion’s Servant (#ulink_a9998496-2705-5ac3-b9e6-a7ac0b66d125)

8 Cookham, 1914 (#ulink_9d61a710-a396-5140-86f6-7a8e4b8535b1)

9 Swan Upping (#ulink_85cf4bb1-d29f-5939-b65b-6fbe9db882f6)

10 Christ Carrying the Cross (#ulink_e8363d34-528f-503e-a006-d77ea75333f9)

Part Two: The Confusions of War 1915–1918 (#ulink_fb8353cb-b30a-57c9-80c8-42b860b0d60e)

11 The Burghclere Chapel: The Beaufort panels (#ulink_f0b7a795-89ce-5ddb-99e2-4aeacfd56ffa)

12 The Burghclere Chapel: Tweseldown (#ulink_3b78c99c-883d-561a-a609-95520fb690d8)

13 The Burghclere Chapel: The left-wall frieze (#ulink_465dc39c-6fa1-5a3c-a9a4-17285eb9c042)

14 The Burghclere Chapel: The right-wall frieze (#ulink_beb04d55-1721-58a9-baeb-62ed1fef4d67)

15 The Burghclere Chapel: The 1917 summer panels (#litres_trial_promo)

16 The Burghclere Chapel: The infantry panels (#litres_trial_promo)

17 The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: The Years of Recovery 1919–1924 (#litres_trial_promo)

18 Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem (#litres_trial_promo)

19 Travoys Arriving with Wounded Soldiers at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia (#litres_trial_promo)

20 The Last Supper (#litres_trial_promo)

21 The Crucifixion, 1921 (#litres_trial_promo)

22 The Betrayal, 1923 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Four: The Great Resurrections 1924–1931 (#litres_trial_promo)

23 The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard (#litres_trial_promo)

24 Burghclere: The Resurrection of Soldiers (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Five: Return to Cookham 1932–1936 (#litres_trial_promo)