How Long to Read Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War

How Long Does it Take to Read Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War by Cecil Beaton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

At the beginning of the Second World War the Ministry of Information, through the advice of Kenneth Clark, commissioned Cecil Beaton to photograph the Home Front. Beaton set to work recording the destruction of the Wren churches in the City and the heroism of Londoners under attack. He conducted a survey of Bomber and Fighter Commands for the RAF, which was published with Beaton's own astute commentary. Beaton was an effective propagandist, but his voice, like his photographs, was touchingly elegant. Whatever his subject, Beaton was always a stylist. Beaton's wartime work for the Ministry amounted to seven thousand photographs, which are now housed with their negatives at the Imperial War Museums. They form a great document both of the landscape of war and of the passing of the Empire. He travelled through the Western Desert and on to Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. In 1943 he left for India where he photographed the final days of the Raj in New Delhi and Calcutta before joining the Burma campaign. He ended the war deep in Chinese territory where he witnessed the Nationalist resistance to the Japanese. Beaton's inherent sense of theatre extended from palatial drawing rooms to the jungle and the desert. Whatever the circumstances he never departed from his radical aesthetic. Theatre of War is published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museums on the occasion of a major exhibition.

How long is Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War?

Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War by Cecil Beaton is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War aloud.

What Reading Level is Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War?

Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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