{"product_id":"bacon-in-moscow-1","title":"Bacon in Moscow","description":"'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' Grayson Perry\n\nThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an  audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British  curator, to mount the ground-breaking retrospective  of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished  Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988. \n\n Side-lined by the British establishment, Birch found  himself at the heart of a honey-trap and the focus  for a picaresque cast of Soviet officials, attaches and  politicians under the forbidding eye of the KGB as  he attempted to bring an unseen western cultural  icon to Russia during the time of 'Glasnost', just  before the fall of the Berlin Wall.\n\nBacon in Moscow is the story of the evolution of an  exhibition that was at the artistic and political heart  of a sea of change that culminated with the fall of  the USSR. \n\n'A rollicking cultural adventure before the fall of the  Berlin Wall and the meteoric rise of contemporary  art in the nineties' Grayson Perry","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56643614933336,"sku":"9781788169745","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bacon-in-moscow-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}