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Muir, Robin,
author.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036133
Cecil Beaton's Bright young things /
Robin Muir.
Bright young things
London :
National Portrait Gallery Publications,
[2020]
[New York] :
[ARTBOOK/D.A.P.]
©2020
277 pages :
illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ;
29 cm
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"Published to accompany the exhibition: 'Cecil Beaton's Bright young things' held at the National Portrait Gallery, London (12 March to 7 June 2020) ; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (25 June to 18 October 2020) ; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham (14 November 2020 to 28 February 2021)"--Page 277.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-267) and index.
Foreword --
Introduction --
Ouverture: Beginnings --
Travesti: Curtain raisers --
Maestri: Patrons --
Cadenza: Principals --
Bel canto: Heavenly creatures --
Fioritura: True originals --
Seria: Featured players --
Intermezzo: Society on display --
Coloratura: Society at play --
Arioso: Idylls --
Coda --
Curator's acknowledgements --
Bibliography --
List of lenders --
Loan credits --
Picture credits --
Index.
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers. These 'Bright Young Things' captured the spirit of the roaring twenties and thirties as they cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch. Beaton quickly developed a reputation for his beautiful, often striking and fantastic photographs, which culminated in his portraits of Queen Elizabeth in 1939. More than a photographer, Beaton became a society fixture in his own right. In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton's first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 60 leading figures who sat for him are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton's socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, the Mitfords, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne Du Maurier. Beaton's photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings and ephemera and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb. Exhibition: London, UK National Portrait Gallery, 03/12/20-06/07/20 Sheffield, UK Millennium Gallery, 06/25/20-10/18/20 Cheltenham, UK The Wilson, 11/14/20-02/28/21.
Beaton, Cecil,
1904-1980
Exhibitions.
Portrait photography
Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109271
Photography, Artistic
Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108790
Biography
20th century
Portraits.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014160
Beaton, Cecil,
1904-1980.
fast
(OCoLC)fst01427173
Photography, Artistic.
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(OCoLC)fst01061964
Biography.
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(OCoLC)fst00832149
Portrait photography.
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(OCoLC)fst01072259
1900-1999
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Portraits.
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(OCoLC)fst01423831
Exhibition catalogs.
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(OCoLC)fst01424028
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),
host institution.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79113062
Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, England),
host institution.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017140719
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum,
host institution.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50077183