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Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact

English

By (author): David Sylvester

The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works, responding always with vivacity and candour to Sylvesters searching questions. Bacons obsessive effort to record and re-create the human form, his practice of making variation on old masters painting and on photographs, his dependence on chance, and his views about the way in which his work has been interpreted are only some of the many subjects discussed and investigated in depth during these historic encounters. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 670g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500292532

About David Sylvester

David Sylvester CBE (19242001) was a prominent writer art critic and curator and a leading authority on René Magritte Henry Moore and in particular Francis Bacon. He first wrote about Bacons work in the late 1940s and the pair soon became close friends. Over the next forty years he was Bacons Boswell interpreter confidant occasional model and briefly agent. He curated or co-curated numerous major exhibitions at museums around the world including one-man shows of Picasso Miró Magritte Moore Giacometti and Bacon. His published books include Interviews with Francis Bacon Looking Back at Francis Bacon and the five-volume Magritte catalogue raisonné.

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