The Face of Courage

Eric Kennington, Portraiture and the Second World War

Dr Jonathan Black (Kingston University, UK)

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Philip Wilson Publishers
30 June 2011

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Portraits in art

This title presents the Eric Kennington's powerful, poignant and unforgettable portraits of soldiers of the Second World War in charcoal and pastel.

The work he produced in this period established Kennington as 'among the most capable draughtsmen' of the day. He was frequently mentioned by leading art critics as equal in skill to contemporaries such as Augustus John, William Orpen and John Singer Sergeant. Kennington's work was routinely placed in the same class as such giants from the past as Botticelli, Van Eyck, Durer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Cranach, Ingres and Goya. The incisive, crystalline quality of his draughtsmanship was especially admired, the variety of effects he could achieve with the subtlest change in pressure on a stick of charcoal or pastel.

This book brings together a fine selection of Kennington's war portraits, along with accounts of his sitters' dramatic careers and the context of these works.

By: Dr Jonathan Black (Kingston University UK)
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 215mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 831g
ISBN: 9780856677052
ISBN 10: 0856677051
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 June 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Jonathan Black has been a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University since 2008. His publications include: 'The Graphic Art of Eric Kennington' (UCL, 2001); The Sculpture of Eric Kennington' (Lund Humphries, 2002); 'Form, Feeling and Calculation: the Paintings and Drawings of Edward Wadsworth' (PWP, 2005); 'Dora Gordine: Artist, Sculptor, Designer' (PWP, 2008). He has published various essays on aspects of early 20th Century British and European Art i.e. on the prints of C.R.W. Nevinson (2007); Henri Gaudier Brzeska and the First World War (2007); graphic artist Hans Schleger (2009); Charles Sargeant Jagger's Royal Artillery Memorial, London (2010) and Eric Kenningtons friendship with T E Lawrence (2010)