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PublisherThames & Hudson

ISBN-100500239983

ISBN-139780500239988

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038307604

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Book TitleFrancis Bacon : Books and Painting

Number of Pages242 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicIndividual Artists / Essays, History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorBernard Blistene

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight54.1 Oz

Item Length12 in

Item Width9.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-940653

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal759.2915

SynopsisPublished to accompany a major Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris, which will travel to the Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Francis Bacon analyzes Bacon's works from 1971 onward in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed overanalysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic terms; he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conjured up by certain texts: Aeschylus's phrase "the reek of human blood smiles out at me" particularly haunted Bacon, while his 1978 work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land . An inventory of Bacon's personal library has identified more than 1,300 books, ranging from Georges Bataille and Joseph Conrad to Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Leiris. Including twelve of Bacon's renowned triptychs, this lavish publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings created by Bacon between 1971 and his death in 1992. Reproduced here with analyses of Bacon's paintings in the light of some of his most admired authors, these specially commissioned texts reveal new ways of understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern canon., A radically newperspective on FrancisBacon's art, analyzing theways in which literatureinspired the artist's work. Published to accompany a major Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris, which will travel to the Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Francis Bacon analyzes Bacon's works from 1971 onward in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed overanalysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic terms; he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conjured up by certain texts: Aeschylus's phrase "the reek of human blood smiles out at me" particularly haunted Bacon, while his 1978 work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land . An inventory of Bacon's personal library has identified more than 1,300 books, ranging from Georges Bataille and Joseph Conrad to Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Leiris. Including twelve of Bacon's renowned triptychs, this lavish publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings created by Bacon between 1971 and his death in 1992. Reproduced here with analyses of Bacon's paintings in the light of some of his most admired authors, these specially commissioned texts reveal new ways of understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern canon., A radically newperspective on FrancisBacon's art, analyzing theways in which literatureinspired the artist's work.

LC Classification NumberND497