Love and War
Published on 30. April 2015
Book
Hardback
88 pages
978-1-910258-01-9 (ISBN)
Description
The artist Rex Whistler (1905?1944) was frequently in love, always with beautiful women, and seldom happily. In this book Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, authors of the acclaimed biography In Search of Rex Whistler (2012), trace the artist's romantic life and also his years with the Welsh Guards in the Second World War, until his tragic death, aged thirty-nine, in battle in France.
Love and War, like its companion volume Family, Friends, Landscapes, includes numerous previously unpublished illustrations, many from private collections.
Love and War, like its companion volume Family, Friends, Landscapes, includes numerous previously unpublished illustrations, many from private collections.
Reviews / Votes
From reviews of In Search of Rex Whistler:'A superb new biography...which throws new light on the artist's complex world, and marks the resounding reclamation of his reputation.' -- Financial Times 'Not merely a delight to read, well researched and carefully organised, but also lavishly illustrted and beautifully designed.' -- Country Life 'Sharp-nosed and perceptive.' -- Times Literary Supplement
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Gemini Books Group Ltd
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white; Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 180 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910258-01-9 (9781910258019)
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Persons
Military historian Dr Hugh Cecil's books include The Flower of Battle: How Britain Wrote the Great War (Steerforth, 1996). Mirabel Cecil is author of A Kind of Prospero (Walker, 1996) and, with David Mlinaric, Mlinaric On Decorating (Frances Lincoln, 2008). Together Hugh and Mirabel Cecil have written Clever Hearts: a Life of Desmond and Molly MacCarthy (Gollancz, 1990), which won both the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award, Imperial Marriage (History Press, 2005) and, most recently, In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and His Work (Frances Lincoln, 2012).