Martin Gayford

Modernists and Mavericks

Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

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Produktbeschreibung

"A masterpiece, a major work of modern art history." --Wall Street Journal "Absorbing and lavishly illustrated." --New Yorker "If you are interested in modern British art, the book is unputdownable. If you are not, read it. You soon will be." --Financial Times

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9780500295328
• ISBN-10: 0500295328
• Artikelnr.: 55393671

Autorenporträt

Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, both with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939-1954, with David Dawson; and Venice: City of Pictures.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 14 Abercorn Place
2. Pope Francis
3. Euston Road in Camberwell
4. The Spirit in the Mass (at Borough Polytechnic)
5. Girl with Roses
6. Leaping into the Void
7. Translating Life into Art: Bacon and Freud in the 50s
8. Two Climbers Roped Together: Auerbach and Kossoff
9. An Arena in Which to Act
10. What Makes the Modern Home so Different?
11. The Situation in London, 1960
12. The Artist Thinks: Hockney and his Contemporaries