Daria Kolacka (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Qto., 255 pages, colour illustrated. A New copy in the shrink wrap as issued. Size: Qto. Book.

Condition: gut. Francis Bacon : The Violence of the Real In englischer Sprache. pages.

Hardcover, 256 pages, ENG, 305 x 230 mm, in Good condition, dustjacket, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780500093351. Dramatic depictions of human forms ? writhing painfully, dissolving, wrestling or engulfing one another, seated or in motion ? are ubiquitous in the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of the most eminent painters of the 20th century. Bacon portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. His individuals are usually alone, isolated from their surroundings, trapped in empty, windowless rooms or behind the bars of cages. Bacon?s figures act on stage-like platforms, doubled over in torment, sliding into formlessness. By wiping, scratching and erasures, Bacon converted the picture surface into a field of perpetual activity ? and in the process, created images of great forcefulness, sensibility and beauty. Bacon found his models not only in the history of art, but also in photographs of athletes, soccer players, or boxers in combat. He also betrayed a strong interest in the photographic sequences through which Eadweard Muybridge, in the later 19th century, registered the phases of a path of animal movement. Such instinctively performed motions disclosed to Bacon actions of an original sensuality which he strove to capture in his pictures. 1660 g.…

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Hörbuch (DVD). Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : DVD: Laufzeit 49 Minuten in Booklet mit 30 Seiten Der Dokumentarfilm von Daria Kolacka und Piotr Dzumala präsentiert die international bekannte Schweizer Fotografin, Videomacherin und Künstlerin Vera Isler.