at the other end of life’s journey, portraiture is “an act of resistance to mortality.”
“The Face of Britain” resembles Schama’s marvelous 1995 volume “Landscape and Memory,” which charted changing cultural attitudes toward rivers, forests and other geographical features. Seething with ideas, “The Face of Britain,” with its arresting compilation of “stories of eyeballing encounters in British art and history,”
Facing Britain: Simon Schama Takes a Gallery Tour
....“We will never know” is an overused phrase — when he slyly wants us to imagine the worst. Musing about the romantic triangle of William and Jane Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he writes: “We will never know for sure whether, once the little Morris daughters were asleep, Janey or Gabriel walked through William’s room, separating them, and joined their bodies.” Given what Schama, in his characteristically vivid way, has told us about Rossetti’s abuse of “chloral hydrate for his insomnia and whisky to cut its bitter taste,” we may rather hope that Janey didn’t!
The Face of Britain with Simon Schama (TV Series 2015
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An eclectic look at British portraiture through the ages, in which Schama tries to understand how it contributes towards the British character and its changes.
書名：英國面孔：從肖像畫看歷史，語言：簡體中文，ISBN：9787100184465，頁數：540，出版社：商務印書館，作者：（英）西蒙·沙瑪，出版日期：2021/06/01，類別：史地.
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英國面孔：從肖像畫看歷史（簡體書）
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書名：英國面孔：從肖像畫看歷史（簡體書），ISBN：9787100184465，出版社：商務印書館（大陸），作者：(英)西蒙‧沙瑪，譯者：劉冰，頁數：527，出版日期：2021/06/01.
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中文名. 英国面孔 · 作者. [英]西蒙·沙玛（Simon Schama） · 译者. 刘冰 · 出版社. 商务印书馆 · 出版时间. 2021年6月 · 页数. 540 页 · 定价. 168.00 元 · 装帧. 精装.
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