Francis Bacon

Leiris, Michel

ISBN 10: 0847809048 / ISBN 13: 9780847809042

Published by Rizzoli Intl Pubns, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1988

About this Item

Hardcover 1st American edition - Some shelf and edgewear, bumped edges, otherwise a good clean solid copy. Dust jacket is rubbed and lightly chipped, otherwise fine - 258 colour illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 093968

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Francis Bacon
• Publisher: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847809048
• ISBN 13: 9780847809042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illlustrated
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • .Art

About this title

Synopsis

Shows the British artist's portraits, self-portraits, triptychs, and crucifixions, and discusses Bacon's career and approach to art

Reviews

Bacon's menacing pictures of twisted human torsos, rabid dogs and dismembered men stranded amid carcasses made him a fashionable painter in the 1960s. But what has he been doing in the '80s? As this concise retrospective reveals, the British painter's obsessions and methods have scarcely changed. In his recent pictures, water from a running tap becomes a torrential cyclone; Mick Jagger's face is a cry of despair; a bloodstain on a floor plank suspended in space shocks and outrages; distorted human figures, set against pastel or bright-orange backdrops, perplex. This album combines 155 color reproductions with a perceptive 15-page essay by French ethnographer Leiris who explores Bacon's use of distortions, jazz-like breaks and empty spaces in canvases fraught with good and evil. He aptly compares Bacon's paintings to flash photographs that transform banal details into disturbing presences.
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