Not only has the author succeeded in giving us a forthright and convincing portrait of one of the most driven women in British history, but by making use of the uncataloged archives preserved at the home of Florence's older sister, Parthenope, she offers fascinating insights into the family that Nightingale relied on and wanted to escape.
Possibly as a result of Barney's forthright Sapphist views, Brooks's portrait style became more realistic and more intent on shaping a new concept of femininity.
The disc has a commentary by the intelligent, articulate Frankenheimer, a first-rate hour-length American Film Institute documentary made shortly after his death in 2002, and a portrait of the confident, forthright Angela Lansbury.
The assembly of portraits is no beauty pagaent; a forthright depiction rather than a flattering one seems to have been the standard of the day.
Installed on a temporary wall in the Oval Room, it shocks the neighboring Whistler portraits with its feral gaze and forthright celebration of hard labor. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700, frick.org.org
Installed on a temporary wall in the Oval Room, it shocks the neighboring Whistler portraits with its feral gaze and forthright celebration of hard labor. 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan, (212) 288-0700, frick.org.org
In his lighthearted yet forthright documentary, "39 Pounds of Love," the director Dani Menkin presents a bracingly honest portrait of a man refusing to be defined by the limitations of his body.
The documentary portrait is a tough genre, because it's generally undertaken in a spirit of forthright enthusiasm for its subject, which gets in the way of asking the tough questions.
All are commendably forthright.
