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The Last Of England (book)
''The Last of England'' refers to: * ''The Last of England'' (painting), a painting by Ford Madox Brown * ''The Last of England'' (film), a Derek Jarman film, whose title was inspired by the Madox Brown painting * ''The Last of England'' (book), a 1970 book of poetry by Peter Porter {{DEFAULTSORT:Last of England, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of England (painting)
''The Last of England'' is an 1855 oil-on-panel painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting two emigrants leaving England to start a new life in Australia with their baby. The painting has an oval format and is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Background Brown began the painting in 1852 inspired by the departure of his close friend, the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who had left for Australia in July of that year. Emigration from England was at a peak, with over 350,000 people leaving that year. Brown, who at the time considered himself "very hard up and a little mad", was himself thinking of moving to India with his new family. Painting The painting depicts a man and his wife seeing England for the last time. The two main figures, based on Brown and his wife, Emma, stare ahead, stony-faced, ignoring the white cliffs of Dover which can be seen disappearing behind them in the top right of the picture. They are huddled under an umbrella that glistens with sea-spray. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of England (film)
''The Last of England'' is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton. It is a poetic depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Thatcher's England (including the formation of Section 28 Local Government Act), declaring it a homophobic and repressive totalitarian state. In 1986, Jarman was also diagnosed as HIV positive and had just finished his masterpiece, ''Caravaggio'', so the film is a confluence of angry imagination. It is named after '' The Last of England'', a painting by Ford Madox Brown. The painting and the film, share themes of escape and the changing of place. The film uses a shaky hand-held camera to evoke anxiety, and the ever-present melancholy is expressed in the extracts from poems, including T.S. Eliot's ''The Hollow Men'' and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", which are monotonously read by narrator Nigel Terry. One of the film's most famous scenes is of Tilda Swint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |