Splendours and miseries : diaries 1967-1987
Strong, Roy2017
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Roy Strong is best known as the flamboyant former director of two great cultural institutions - the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Here, 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.
Main title:
Splendours and miseries : diaries 1967-1987 / Roy Strong.
Author:
Strong, Roy, author
Edition:
Revised and updated [edition].
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.
Collation:
787 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 1977.
ISBN:
9781474605335 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
709.2B STRB
Language:
English
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BRN:
1082958