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Love Stories by Lucy Peltz (Editor); Peter Funnell (Text by); Simon Callow (Text by); Marina Warner (Text by); Louise Stewart (Text by)
Category: Humour
The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent scholarship, the exhibition will explore changing ...Show more
Orson Welles by Simon Callow
Category: Biography | Series: Orson Welles Biographies Ser.
A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.
Orson Welles : Hello Americans by Simon Callow
Category: Biography
The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When 'Citizen Kane', his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywoo ...Show more
Orson Welles One Man Band Volume 3 by Simon Callow
Category: Biography
In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium ...Show more
Orson Welles Volume 3 by Callow Simon
Category: Film | Series: Orson Welles Biographies Ser.
In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium ...Show more
Oscar Wilde and His Circle by Simon Callow
Category: Biography | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
One of literatures most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him including Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Max Beerbohm and Wildes lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) Simon Callow captures the spirit of one of Britains most feted, but ul ...Show more
Speak its Name!: Quotations by and About Gay Men and Women by Simon Callow
Category: Biography
This collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights in the UK over the last half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them. A diverse range of people from the worlds of entertainment, sport, fashion, busi ...Show more