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Churchill: The Statesman as Artist Hardcover – November 6, 2018

by David Cannadine (Author)

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Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included his family homes at Blenheim and Chartwell, evocative coastal scenes on the French Riviera, and many sun-drenched depictions of Marrakesh in Morocco, as well as still life pictures and an extraordinarily revealing self-portrait, painted during a particularly troubled time in his life. In war and peace, Churchill came to enjoy painting as his primary means of relaxation from the strain of public affairs.

In his introduction to Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, David Cannadine provides the most important account yet of Churchill's life in art, which was not just a private hobby, but also, from 1945 onwards, an essential element of his public fame. The first part of this book brings together for the first time all of Churchill's writings and speeches on art, not only "Painting as a Pastime," but his addresses to the Royal Academy, his reviews of two of the Academy's summer exhibitions, and an important speech he delivered about art and freedom in 1937.

The second part of the book provides previously uncollected critical accounts of his work by some of Churchill's contemporaries: Augustus John's hitherto unpublished introduction to the Royal Academy exhibition of Churchill's paintings in 1959, and essays and reviews by Churchill's acquaintances Sir John Rothenstein and Professor Thomas Bodkin, and the art critic Eric Newton. The book is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of many of Churchill's paintings, some of them appearing for the first time. Here is Churchill the artist more fully revealed than ever before.

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“Winston Churchill saw the world with an artist's eyes. David Cannadine's eloquent introduction, and the sources he has chosen to cite, illuminate the interplay between art, words and politics that shaped this most fascinating individual.” ―Allan Packwood, Director, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge

“This immensely uplifting and beautifully produced book covers every aspect of Churchill as an artist, and what painting meant to him. What started as therapy soon turned into a lifelong pleasure for Churchill, and David Cannadine brilliantly shows how one can't really understand Churchill without appreciating this vital part of his life.” ―Professor Andrew Roberts

“David Cannadine brings wit, verve and insight into this fascinating theme of the brushwork, wordpower and artistry of a man who lived on the very widest canvas.” ―Peter Hennessy

About the Author

Professor Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and President of the British Academy. His numerous publications include The Undivided Past, In Churchill's Shadow, Class in Britain and The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. He appears regularly on television and radio, and lectures widely in the UK and America.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Continuum; First Edition (November 6, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472945212
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472945211
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.39 x 0.84 x 9.32 inches

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chester hertling

The likes of Winston Churchill will never happen again…

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2022

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To explore the other areas of this statesman that I knew nothing about.

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Jennalee

Easy read.

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019

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Loved this book! I’ve been to his home, Chartwell, and I’ve toured his art studio on the property. This book was enjoyable to read. Many pictures of his paintings included.

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Winston the Painter

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018

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Churchill, the greatest personality of the last century, was an amateur painter of modest talent. This book gives the reader much of what Sir Winston said about art in general, along with some reflections on his own artworks by contemporary critics.

While this book is not bad, I would recommend an interested reader first go to a similar and better effort, "Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings" by David Coombs with Minnie Churchill (2003).

One of the joys of reading any book on Churchill is discovering new examples of his command of the English language. Here Is one from page 69: Most people when giving a short speech in place of their boss would merely mention that he (the boss) was unable to address the group due to the press of other business. Here is how Churchill stated the matter; " [my boss] feels the necessity of bracing himself for the exceptional responsibilities which rest upon him and of concentrating his whole endeavors on their effective discharge." Therefore, the duty of presenting this speech fell to Churchill.

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Lindi Willis

Winston Churchill Book about his painting

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022

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Love this book! It’s a great addition to my collection about WSC!! Thank you!!

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Tes Bewick

Excellent account of Winston and his artistry.

Reviewed in Canada on January 21, 2022

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Excellent account of Winston and his artistry.

WN

Excellent book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2019

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Really enjoyed this. Helped get under the painters skin. Churchill's passion as an artist is well explained and well researched from many sources, more than any other than currently available. A little delight.

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Paul Hayward

Good Old Winston.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2019

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My 22year old nephew Robert is a keen Winston Churchill fan, and this book to him was a god send birthday present which he says he’s enjoyed a lot.

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Wilfred Attenborough

Excellent book, but a flawed picture of Churchill's mental health

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2019

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This book fully deserves the laudatory reviews it has received. For my part, I have found in it much illumination and enjoyment - not least from the splendid reproductions and photographs. On a minor note, I must also say that I am grateful for the reference to my monograph on WSC's black dog in the Introduction's endnote 37. Nevertheless, there is one aspect of the said Introduction which is, I believe, flawed; to this I now turn.
There can be no question that Professor Cannadine is right to argue that Churchill found painting therapeutic. Churchill says so himself in 'Painting As A Pastime,' where he explains why, for "persons who, over prolonged periods, have to bear exceptional responsibilities and discharge duties upon a very large scale," painting as a hobby is an effective remedy for "worry and mental overstrain."
Although that lay-person diagnostic term, "worry and mental overstrain," might be loosely rendered as "anxiety-depression," it provides very little ground for a giant leap to a suggestion that Churchill suffered throughout his life from inherited severe (and therefore substantially disabling) depression - the "inborn melancholia" to which Cannadine refers on page 11 of his Introduction. "Inborn melancholia" in Lord Moran's book (cited by the Professor) is found in what is no more than diagnostic musing on Moran's part, Moran having been Churchill's doctor from 1940 onwards. As I explain in my monograph, the conjecture is ultimately discarded by Moran. Indeed, in his concluding chapter, Moran states that Churchill, "before the outbreak of First World War ... had managed to extirpate bouts of depression from his system."
Of course, the foregoing is not the understanding that a reader of Moran derives from the much quoted but deeply problematic "diary" entry for 14 August 1944 found in the book Lord Moran published in 1966. The critical consequence for Churchill's biographers of the prolonged misunderstanding engendered by the aforesaid "diary" entry is that, when it is recognised as such, it undermines the case that Churchill suffered from despairing depression in Dr. Anthony Storr's hugely influential 1969 essay on "black dog," an essay which is heavily reliant on the said entry - a reliance made manifest by its being quoted at length therein.
In my opinion, it is essential not to overlook official biographer Martin Gilbert's comments in his book 'In Search of Churchill' on "the picture of Churchill as frequently and debilitatingly depressed," a picture which, post-Moran, "had taken hold in the general literature. It did not quite square up to what I was finding: a man often angered and saddened by the bad turn of events, but having unusual resilience to come back fighting within a short time; not someone incapacitated through mental ill-health or through excessive drinking."
It might be counter-argued that Churchill certainly suffered severe depression when removed from a key role in war direction in the period 1915-1917. This seems to be Professor Cannadine's suggestion on page 12 of his Introduction. While I agree that there were episodes of very low mood during this period, I argue inter alia in a forthcoming book, 'Diagnosing Churchill: Bipolar or "Prey to Nerves"?' (McFarland) that the wealth of biographical and autobiographical detail concerning Churchill's personal and professional functioning during 1915-1917 suggests not severe depression but bereavement. Cannadine quotes Clementine Churchill's use of the word "grief" to characterise her husband's low mood following his loss of office: grief following loss is the essence of bereavement. Clementine was not recalling a concern that a severely depressed Winston might take his own life.

Ditto his functioning in the aftermath of the loss of the 1945 General Election.

As for Churchill's functioning in advanced old age, I have argued that the key source is the account provided by his personal assistant Anthony Montague Browne, wherein Churchill's by no means uninterrupted melancholy is readily explicable by advancing "decrepitude" in such forms as physically frailty, deafness, and the ravaging of his mind and body by multiple strokes, all experienced while consigned to the role of spectator at Britain's post-Suez decline as a world power.

Overall, my argument is that, by relying on Occam's Razor, one recognizes that the heritable black-dog hypothesis is inappropriate as a thread to join together across Churchill's lifetime what were actually discrete episodes and periods of non-disabling low mood, low mood invariably reactive to events and circumstances, rather than triggered, often irrespective of events and circumstances, by an inherited metabolic mental illness.

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jeffers

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 9, 2021

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Great book

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