Francis Bacon /
This volume examines Irish-born artist Francis Bacon's (1909-1922) life and art displays the many facets that make his career so intriguing. Filled with personal photographs, quotations from the artist, and beautiful reproductions of his bold, austere and often grotesque paintings, this volume...
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| Language: | English German |
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Munich ; New York :
Prestel,
©2009.
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| Series: | Living_art.
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Table of Contents:
- Context : a time of change
- Fame : "The greatest living painter"
- Art : the incomprehensible Human being
- Life : swimming against the stream
- Love : "There are only sexual obsessions."
- Bacon today : 7 Reece Mews reloaded.