| Description |
147 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| Series |
Britten 100
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Britten 100.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Colin Matthews -- Britten and Pears : a musical eye? / Judith LeGrove -- Collecting and commissioning. Evolution of a collection / Judith LeGrove -- "Art as part of one's life" / Caroline Harding -- Printed traces / Judith LeGrove -- Artists as friends. Britten and Bloomsbury / Paul Kildea -- Britten and Mary Potter / Julian Potter -- Constructed worlds. Britten and film / David Crilly -- Visualising the operas / Jane Pritchard -- Festival exhibitions 1948-1976 / Judith LeGrove -- Britten, Pears and their architects / Alan Powers -- Checklist / Judith LeGrove. |
| Summary |
Essays on art patrons Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and their art collection at The Red House in Aldeburgh. First published 2012 as a limited, hardback edition by Artists' Choice Editions, Church Hanborough. |
| Note |
"The book is typeset in Breughel by Charles Hall, printed on Stow book-white paper by Northend Creative Print Solutions and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. There will be 650 Standard copies, 48 Specials with a folder containing 2 etchings and a booklet." -- Colophon. |
| Contents |
Britten and Pears : a musical eye? / Judith LeGrove -- Evolution of a collection / Judith LeGrove -- 'Art as part of one's life...' / Caroline Harding -- Printed traces / Judith LeGrove -- Britten and Bloomsbury / Paul Kildea -- Britten, Sidney Nolan and Patrick White / T. G. Rosenthal -- Britten and Mary Potter / Julian Potter -- Britten and film / David Crilly -- Visualising the operas / Jane Pritchard -- Festival exhibitions, 1948-1976 / Judith LeGrove -- Britten, Pears and their architects / Alan Powers -- Checklist / Judith LeGrove. |
| Subject |
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. |
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Art museums. |
| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Subject |
Pears, Peter, 1910-1986 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
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Pears, Peter, 1910-1986. |
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Art -- Private collections -- England -- Aldeburgh -- Catalogs.
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Art -- Private collections. |
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England -- Aldeburgh. |
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Britten-Pears Foundation -- Catalogs.
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Britten-Pears Foundation. |
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. |
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Pears, Peter, 1910-1986. |
| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Added Author |
LeGrove, Judith, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781843838869 (paperback) |
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1843838869 (paperback) |
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0955834368 (Cloth) |
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9780955834363 (Cloth) |
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