Modernists & mavericks : Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London painters / Martin Gayford
2019, First Edition. London ; New York : Thames & Hudson. First compact paperback edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #445095
ISBN: 9780500294703
Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-345) and index. Contents; Introduction -- 1. Young Lucian: art in wartime London -- 2. Pope Francis -- 3. Euston Road in Camberwell -- 4. Spirit in the mass: the Borough Polytechnic -- 5. Girl with roses -- 6. Leaping into the void -- 7 Life into art: Bacon and Freud in the 1950s -- 8. Two climbers roped together -- 9. What makes the modern home so different? -- 10. An arena in which to act -- 11. The situation in London, 1960 -- 12. The artist thinks: Hockney and his contemporaries -- 13. The grin without the cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s -- 14. American connections -- 15. Mysterious conventionality -- 16. Portrait surrounded by artistic devices -- 17. Shimmering and dissolving -- 18. The non-existence of action -- Epilogue. Subjects; Bacon, Francis 1909-1992. Freud, Lucian. Hockney, David. Bacon, Francis (English painter, 1909-1992). Freud, Lucian (British painter, born 1922). Hockney, David (English painter, printmaker, and photographer, born 1937). Bacon, Francis 1909-1992 Criticism and interpretation. Freud, Lucian Criticism and interpretation. Hockney, David Criticism and interpretation. ART European. ART Subjects & Themes. ART Techniques Painting. Art and Design.
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