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The National Gallery in Wartime

Name: The National Gallery in Wartime
Author: Suzanne Bosman

Auteur: Suzanne Bosman

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Suzanne Bosman

Engels
Paperback
9781857094244
26 september 2008
128 pagina's

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On Wednesday 23 August 1939, the National Gallery closed its doors to the public, not knowing when they would open again. The paintings were to be secretly evacuated in a relocation that took only eleven days. The last shipment left Trafalgar Square on 2 September, the day before war was declared. This book tells the story of the National Gallery.

On August 23, 1939, with World War II looming, the National Gallery, London, was forced temporarily to close its doors to the public to evacuate the bulk of its collection to secret locations in Wales for safe-keeping. By May 1940, the collection had been transferred to Manod Quarry, a slate mine in the mountains, beneath 200 feet of solid rock. The Gallery, meanwhile, remained “open for business” despite being bombed several times during the Blitz.

This enthralling and richly documented book recounts for the first time the story of how the National Gallery functioned during this eventful period. With extensive archival photographs, many of which are published here for the first time, alongside press accounts and Gallery correspondence, it discusses the preparations to move the pictures; the Gallery’s decision to keep the building open for temporary exhibitions and lunchtime concerts fronted by internationally renowned pianist Myra Hess; director Kenneth Clark’s role as chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee, whose aim was to commission and exhibit pictures recording the war; and the institution of the Picture of the Month, which exhibited in succession 43 of the Gallery’s best-known pictures during the war, and which continues today.

Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 september 2008
Aantal pagina's: 128
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Hoofdauteur: Suzanne Bosman
Hoofduitgeverij: National Gallery Company Ltd

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Product breedte: 203 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 254 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 207 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 251 mm
Verpakking lengte: 14 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 579 g

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Periode: Tweede Wereldoorlog
Taal: Engels
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