Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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  • Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87 Book Detail

  • Author : Roy Strong
  • Release Date : 2017-08-10
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 799
  • ISBN 13 : 1474605346
  • File Size : 29,29 MB
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Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87 by Roy Strong PDF Summary

Book Description: 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is best known as the flamboyant former director of two great cultural institutions - the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. In his first volume of diaries, he takes the reader into the heart of his career, revealing himself to be not just a mercurial and brilliant administrator, but also a shrewd observer of the glittering and political milieu into which he was drawn. We encounter David Hockney in his studio, the poignant figure of Cecil Beaton in decline, Nureyev fizzing with ideas and the Philistine Mrs Thatcher among many others, including a bevy of the Royal Family. And throughout the diaries runs the thread of an exceptional marriage, following his elopement with the designer Julia Trevelyan Oman. Splendours and Miseries provides a unique panorama of the world of the arts, fashion and society, taking us from the outrageous Swinging Sixties to the hard-edged glitz of Thatcher's Britain.

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