Full Description
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. At the centre of this volume are about sixty of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death. Texts by a range of experts on the artist offer new insights into these radical and often discomfiting images, so brilliantly reproduced on the pages of this book.
Contents
Foreword • Introduction by Armin Zweite • The Portrait as a Problem for Modernist Art by Peter Bürger • Francis Bacon: Extreme Points of Realism by Martin Harrison • Working Documents from Francis Bacon's Studio Bacon's Scream by Armin Zweite • Paintings 1945-1991 with commentaries by Frank Laukötter and Maria Müller • Image - Affect: Bacon, Stein and Eisenstein by Daria Kolacka • Accident, Instinct and Inspiration, Affect and the Unconscious by Armin Zweite
