Cecil Beaton at Home

• Author : Andrew Ginger
• Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
• Release : 21 April 2021

An innovative biographical view of legendary designer, photographer, and artist Sir Cecil Beaton, told through the decorative interiors of his English homes and New York hotel suites. Unique from other books on Beaton, this volume illustrates his genius through the lens of his town and country interiors.

• Author : Andrew Ginger
• Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
• Release : 11 October 2016

A private view of the genius of Cecil Beaton, reflected through the lens of his town and country idylls, and his passion for interior design, gardening, and entertaining a circle of Bright Young Things. Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was one of twentieth-century Britain's Renaissance men: photographer, costume designer, set designer, playwright, creator of fashion fabrics, and writer on raffin� interiors and the personalities who inhabited them. He also happened to be a fine interior decorator. Cecil Beaton at Home focuses on

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 06 August 2020

At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City and the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber and Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton's own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 April 2021

At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front.Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum on the occasion of a major exhibition.

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Release : 01 January 2003

The 1960s contains some of the very best set pieces, including Churchill's funeral. He has just completed making the film, My Fair Lady, which included rows with the director George Cukor, Rex Harrison's fondness for watching live sex, Cukor on Audrey Hepburn's figure etc. (Cecil was also the master at slicing up Hollywood social life at that period. He loathed it). His partner Kin, who has spent a year with him in England, returns to the USA, leaving Cecil to

• Author : Hugo Vickers
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 05 March 2020

Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi. In 1980, Beaton personally chose Hugo Vickers to be his biographer, entrusting him with his diaries and the entire body of letters he had written - both personally and professionally - over the course of his life.

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : Conran Octopus
• Release : 21 April 1999

Ashcombe was derelict when Cecil Beaton first saw it, the surviving fragment of a once grand eighteenth century country house set amidst rolling downland. OVer the next fifteen years Beaton transformed Ashcombe into a rural idyll, and a few other memoirs of the period so vividly evoke the gilded slightly edgy flavour of the 1930s. Through Ashcombe's doors flowed artitis, dukes, aesthetes, exiles, filmstars, writers, eccentrics. Yet the house was also Beaton's wartime refuge from his growing success as a

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : Jonathan Cape
• Release : 03 September 2015

Cecil Beatonâe(tm)s sense of style and his much-celebrated career as a designer for film and stage have overshadowed his position as one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. Beatonâe(tm)s persona provided a mask that concealed the seriousness of his accomplishment. His career, running from his earliest pictures in the Twenties to his last work in the Seventies, is unparalleled in its historical breadth. By mid-century he had produced an astonishing array of

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 April 2021

• Author : Cecil Beaton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 April 1964

• Author : Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 April 2021

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
• Release : 21 April 2020

The stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and '30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1920s and '30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the "Bright Young Things." Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these

• Author : Robin Hackett,Freda Hauser,Gay Wachman
• Publisher : Associated University Presse
• Release : 21 April 2021

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses that assume texts are shaped by their authors' public intellectual involvement. In addition, they offer detailed, specific explorations of ways in which British women in

• Author : Charles Spencer
• Publisher : London : Academy Editions ; New York : St. Martin's Press
• Release : 21 April 1975

• Author : Diana Souhami
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 28 February 2013

Greta Garbo first met society photographer Cecil Beaton in Hollywood in 1932. Both were caught in turbulent same-sex affairs. Yet Garbo flirted and danced with Beaton, told him he was pretty, presented him with 'a rose that lives and dies and never again returns' and at dawn drove away in her black Packard. Cecil took the rose home to England, framed it in silver and hung it above his bed. Fifteen years later Greta and Cecil met again. For her it