Description
Book SynopsisFrancis Bacon (19091992) 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. This book presents about sixty of Bacons disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death.
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Table of ContentsForeword • 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
