![]() Place, publisher, year, edition, pagesLondon: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. The book concludes with two more or less forgotten essays about Churchill’s paintings - one by Augustus John and the other by Sir John Rothenstein. A 1920 essay, which later became the basis for his book Painting as a. There have been several good books that gather together examples of Churchill’s paintings. A self-proclaimed pastime painter, Winston Churchill did not put brush to canvas. In 1921, Churchill wrote what became one of his most popu-lar essays, Painting as a Pastime. Apart from his celebrated essay ‘Painting as a Pastime’ this also contains Churchill’s art reviews (never reprinted) and the text of his address to the Royal Academy of Art when he was elected a Fellow. Writing in his famous essay Painting as a Pastime, Winston Churchill said of his favorite hobby: I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. This book consists of a substantial introduction of great critical and historic importance by Professor David Cannadine but also Churchill’s own writings about painting. As fellow artist Sir Oswald Birley said of him: ’If Churchill had given the time to art that he has given to politics, he would have been by all odds the world’s greatest painter’. It had been printed in The Strand Magazine as. ![]() His paintings throw fascinating light upon his character and its vicissitudes and thus are key to understanding his personality as a great statesman. This is the first edition, first printing of Painting as a Pastime, Churchills essay about his famous hobby. Throughout his life he would withdraw to paint. When Winston Churchill suffered most severely from his ’black dog’ he took to painting in order to express the inexpressible. 2018 (English) Book (Other academic) Abstract ![]()
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