Description
| Product ID: | 9780571242276 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Pitmen Painters |
| Authors: | Author: Lee Hall |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: plays & playwrights |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art world; In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become painters. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art world; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-04-03 |
