9780714861333: Francis Bacon
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| SKU | 9780714861333 |
|---|---|
| Title | Francis Bacon |
| Author Description | Martin Hammer |
| Uri | store/art/francis-bacon-9780714861333/ |
| Web Author Description | Martin Hammer is a leading specialist on Bacon, having taught, lectured, researched and written about his work for many years. He is the author of two important scholarly books on the artist, Bacon and Sutherland (2005) and Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda (2012). He also curated major exhibitions devoted to Graham Sutherland at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2005 and ‘The Naked Portrait’ at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh in 2007. He is Professor of History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. |
| webLongDescription | The art of Francis Bacon (1909–1992) epitomizes the angst at the heart of the modern human condition. His dramatic images of screaming figures and distorted anatomies seem to embody the darkness and despair that humanity felt in the wake of World War II. Yet they are also painted with a richly gestural technique, alluding to such Old Masters as Titian, Velázquez and Rembrandt. Displaying repressed and raw emotion, his body of work contributes to the public perception of his personal life as a bohemian in London’s infamous Soho set, which included Lucian Freud and John Deakin, whom he often used as subjects for his paintings. |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Size | Size: 245 x 172 mm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 144 |
| Illustrations | 120 |
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