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Francis
Bacon : A Retrospective
by
Dennis Farr, Francis Bacon
This
book accompanies the traveling retrospective that inaugurated
the newly reopened Yale Center for British Art in January 1999.
Francis Bacon (1909-1992), the eminent British painter known for
his large, colorful, and grotesque paintings of the human body,
was very controlling of what was written about his work during
his lifetime; this book marks the first time that each painting
is individually discussed in print. Included in the book are essays
that provide great insight into Bacon's life and personality.
Especially revealing is an essay by Michael Peppiatt, Bacon's
close friend and biographer (he wrote Francis Bacon: Anatomy of
an Enigma). Bacon lived a life of heavy drinking, gambling, and
socializing, and Peppiatt discusses this lifestyle in relation
to the work: "Bacon himself pretended he painted particularly
well with a hangover. 'My mind simply crackles with electricity
after one of those evenings.'
Along
with beautiful reproductions of the paintings are some photographs
of Bacon's studio, which is astounding in its filth. The floor
is littered with various detritus; brushes and paint tubes are
everywhere. Bacon's intensity is as evident in these studio shots
as in the paintings with contorted figures and grimacing, bruise-colored
faces. You can practically watch the human body decay in front
of your eyes. --Jennifer Cohen
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Bacon
: Portraits and Self-Portraits
by
Francis Bacon, France Borel (Illustrator), Milan Kundera (Introduction)
Book
Description
From
tormented self-images to brutal portrayals of friends and fellow
artists, the portraits of Francis Bacon account for one of the
most remarkable aspects of the work of this great British painter.
His stylistic distortions of classicism and his famous deformations
have changed the traditional genre of portraiture more drastically
than the work of any other artist of the twentieth century. Originally
published on the occasion of a major retrospective at the Centre
Georges Pompidou in Paris, Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits
is the first book dedicated to this aspect of his work. Milan
Kundera, the famed Czech novelist, provides a perceptive introduction
explaining his personal response to Bacon's work, exploring the
paradox that lies in the faithfulness of the distorted images,
and likening Bacon's genius to that of Samuel Beckett, both working
at the outer limits of their art. An important essay by art historian
France Borel sets Bacon's works in the context of his life and
influences and explains his approach to portraiture. With superb
reproductions of more than 130 studies and portraits, including
those of Lucian Freud, George Dyer, Mick Jagger, and Isabel Rawsthorne,
Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits offers new insight into these
radical and disturbing images. Many details are included, revealing
for the first time the varied textures of Bacon's paint surface.
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Francis
Bacon : Working on Paper
by
David Sylvester (Introduction), Matthew Gale, Francis Bacon, Nicholas
Serota
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Francis
Bacon : Painter of a Dark Vision
by
Christophe Domino, Ruth Sharman (Translator)
Editorial
Reviews Ingram
A
survey of the life and art of the twentieth-century British painter
explains his surrealistic, disturbing treatment of the human face
and figure, through photographs, Bacon's own statements, and a
multitude of reproductions of his work. Original."
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7
Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio
by
John Edwards, Perry Ogden (Photographer)
Editorial
Reviews From Publishers Weekly
Documenting
the painter's London live/ work space as he left it, 7 Reece Mews:
Francis Bacon's Studio lovingly takes stock of the late Irish
artist's stacked canvases, crushed paint tubes, shelves of books,
bust of Blake, on-the-wall color tests and stacks of assorted
ephemera as he left them in 1992. Irish photographer Perry Ogden
took the 60 carefully framed color photos here, and Bacon's companion
John Edwards contributes an introductory essay. The studio has
since been painstakingly packed up and shipped to Dublin's Hugh
Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art.
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Francis
Bacon (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 9)
by
Hugh Davies, Sally Yard (Contributor)
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