Michael Peppiatt

Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Peppiatt, a major art critic and close friend of Francis Bacon's, offers an entertaining and uniquely well-informed portrait of this complex artist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780500295854
• ISBN-10: 0500295859
• Artikelnr.: 60200089

Autorenporträt

Michael Peppiatt is a well-known author and internationally respected authority on 20th-century art. He has written numerous publications on Bacon, including the biography Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction * Interviewing Francis Bacon: Interview One: From a Conversation with Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon At Work
Bacon and Picasso On La Danse (Crucifixion), 1933
An Obsession with Popes
Francis Bacon in the 1950s * Interview Two: Reality Conveyed by a Lie
The Sacred and the Profane
Mr Bacon and Miss Beston
'All the Pulsations of a Person': Portraits and Self-Portraits On Four Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1967
Francis Bacon and Shakespeare * Interview Three: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance
Francis Bacon in Paris
On Study of George Dyer, 1971
On Seated Figure, 1974
A Strange Fascination: Michel Leiris and Francis Bacon
On Two Figures, 1975
Reflections on Francis Bacon's Late Work * Envoi: Bacon's Eyes