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Looking back at Francis Bacon

English

By (author): David Sylvester

A unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of the 20th century, by the distinguished critic David Sylvester.

Controversial in both life and art, Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the 20th century. His monumental, unsettling images have an extraordinary power to disturb, shock and haunt the spectator, to unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently.

Drawing on his personal knowledge of Bacons inspirations, intentions and working methods, David Sylvester surveys the development of the work from 1933 to the early 1990s, and discusses critically a number of its crucial aspects.

He also reproduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself, modern painters and the art of the past. Finally, Sylvester gives a brief account of Bacons life, correcting certain errors that elsewhere have been presented as facts.

Divided into the sections Review, Reflections, Fragments of Talk and Biographical Note, Looking Back at Francis Bacon is a unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of our age by a writer of comparable distinction. See more
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  • Weight: 1140g
  • Dimensions: 216 x 268mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780500296479

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 and the five-volume Magritte catalogue raisonné.

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