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8 - Churchill, Art and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

By
Barry Phipps
Edited by
Allen Packwood
Allen Packwood
Affiliation:
Churchill College, Cambridge
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Summary

Churchill’s art has remained marginal to the study of his legacy in the twentieth century and yet he was in correspondence with some of the most highly regarded painters of the period, and was successfully presented and reviewed. The chapter explores Churchill’s relationship with art: his encounter with painting, his mentors and influences, painting, politics and the tension between tradition and modernism in the art of his age, the reception of his works, and the question of the amateur versus the professional artist.

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artHitlerLaveryMarrakeshMunningsNicholsonpaintingPicassoRoyal AcademySickert
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The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill , pp. 151 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Cannadine, D., Churchill: The Statesman as Artist (London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018)Google Scholar
Churchill, W. S., Painting as a Pastime (London: Odhams Press, 1948)Google Scholar
Coombs, D., Churchill: His Paintings (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967)Google Scholar
Coombs, D. with Churchill, M., Sir Winston Churchill’s Life Through His Paintings (London: Chaucer, 2003)Google Scholar

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