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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. "The Pitmen Painters" premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in September 2007, before transferring to the National Theatre in 2008.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: plays & playwrights

• Full title: Pitmen Painters
• Author: Lee Hall
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780571242276
• ISBN: 0571242278
• ID: 04103631
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 140 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2008

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