Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

ISBN-13: 9780367010539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 409 str.

Michael Peppiatt

Opis

This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that took place since 1963. The book forms the first comprehensive account of the artist's life and his work.

Spis treści

Preface -- 1909–44 -- Origins and Upbringing 1909-26 -- Educated Abroad: Berlin and Paris 1926-28 -- A Brief Apprenticeship 1928-33 -- ‘Insufficiently Surreal’ 1933–39 -- A Vision Without Veils 1939–44 -- 1944–63 -- Father Figures and Crucifixions 1944–46 -- Towards Other Shores 1946–50 -- Hounded by Furies 1950–54 -- Truth Told by a Lie 1954–58 -- Recognition at Home: The Tate Retrospective 1958–63 -- 1963–92 -- ‘A Brilliant Fool Like Me’ 1963–69 -- All the Honours of Paris 1969–72 -- Elegy for the Dead 1972–75 -- ‘My Exhilarated Despair’ 1975–81 -- Alone in the Studio 1981–84 -- ‘The Greatest Living Painter’ 1984–92 -- Postscript -- Main Exhibitions

O autorze

Michael Peppiatt