Bacon
Jose Maria Faerna(Editor)
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1995
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-0-8109-4675-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is one of the "Great Modern Masters" series on 20th-century artists, offering introductions to modern art and artists. This book covers Francis Bacon (1909-1992), a controversial British painter, whose art often appears deliberately disturbing. His subject was the human form, but to him it was something to be taken apart by the artist's penetrating gaze and then put back together again on canvas. He forces the viewer to see the separate shapes and stresses hidden in the familiar human figure. Often called an Expressionist or even a Surrealist, Bacon himself strongly rejected both labels. He insisted that in its own way his work was close to the world we see every day, remaining true to what he called "the brutality of fact". This book reproduces 68 of Bacon's most important paintings, including several of his well-known triptychs. It includes documentary photographs of Bacon's studio, his associates, and models, and works by other artists that strongly affected Bacon's paintings.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
68 colour halftones, 14 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 238 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8109-4675-0 (9780810946750)
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