Simon Schama

Will the real J.M.W. Turner please stand up.

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We spent a really interesting evening yesterday catching up on some TV programmes my wife had recorded. There were two films about J.M.W. Turner, both of them rather old now, but interesting because they presented very different sides of the artist, and contrasting ways of approaching the interpretation of his art. The first was presented … Read more

Romantic? Who, me?

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Last night we watched the second programme in the series presented by the historian Simon Schama, on the subject of “Romanticism”. I think it is he best thing I’ve seen by him. Often he can seem a bit “full of himself”, so that he diverts attention away from his subject-matter. In this series he does … Read more