Finding Nemon the extraordinary life of the outsider who sculpted the famous
'I greatly admire the art of Mr Oscar Nemon, whose prowess in the ancient classical realm of sculpture has won such remarkable appreciation in our country.' - Winston Churchill. His talent was classical sculpture, but his gifts lay in capturing the personality of his sitters. It was for bo...
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Peter Owen
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 'I greatly admire the art of Mr Oscar Nemon, whose prowess in the ancient classical realm of sculpture has won such remarkable appreciation in our country.' - Winston Churchill. His talent was classical sculpture, but his gifts lay in capturing the personality of his sitters. It was for both these reasons and a singular determination that Oscar Nemon, an artist born of humble Jewish stock in a small city in modern-day Croatia, found himself before the great and good of twentieth-century society in order to sculpt them. Among his sitters were the Queen, Sigmund Freud, President Truman, Margaret Thatcher and, most famously, Winston Churchill. Author, and daughter of Nemon, Aurelia Young, provides an intimate biography of a father who was both shadowy and vivid, loving yet distant. In searching for Nemon she finds a paradoxical figure; to his sitters he was an outsider, foreign, Jewish, without family, while in the art world he was seen as part of the establishment. Finding Nemon, the first biography of Oscar Nemon to appear in English, finally brings the sculptor out from the shadow of his work |
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| Beschreibung: | 224 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780720620665 978-0-72062-066-5 9780720620375 978-0-72062-037-5 |