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Sansom & Co Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere
Stanley Spencer was one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century artists. He became famous for two things: his celebration and immortalisation of his home town of Cookham in Berkshire - his 'heaven on earth' as he lovingly called it - and the fusion in his paintings of sex and religion, the heavenly and the ordinary. In 1915, Spencer left home to serve as a medical orderly in the Beaufort Military Hospital in Bristol. Aged 24, he had rarely stayed away overnight from home. For ten months, he scrubbed floors, bandaged convalescent soldiers and carried supplies around the vast, former lunatic asylum. In 1916, he signed up for overseas duty in Macedonia, where he saw violent action up to the eve of the Armistice. Five years after the war, Spencer started making large drawings of a possible memorial scheme based on his wartime experiences. So extraordinary were his sketches, and so committed was he to realising them in paint, that the Behrend family became his patrons, funding a purpose-built memorial chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury. For five years, he toiled, often on top of a giant scaffold, to produce the painted chapel now regarded as his masterpiece - one of the unsung artistic glories of Europe. Drawing on Spencer's own letters, illustrations and paintings, Paul Gough tells the story of the artist's journey from cosseted family life, through the drudgery of a war hospital and the malarial battlefields of a forgotten front, to his unique vision of peace and resurrection in Burghclere. The book locates Spencer's work alongside other soldier-artists of the time.
£31.50
Sansom & Co Dead Ground: War and Peace: Remembrance and Recovery
Paul Gough examines the aftermath of the Great war and the impact of terrain militaria on contemporary British and Australian painters, photographers and writers.
£18.00
Yale University Press Gilbert Spencer
The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British artist
£30.00
Sansom & Co The Holy Box
History of the building of the Sandham War Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and the art of the murals inside, painted by war artist Stanley Spencer
£22.50
