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Francis Bacon: Couplings
Buch von Richard Francis
Sprache: Englisch

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A focused look at double-figure paintings by the celebrated British artist, whose disturbing portrayals radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.

This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to the subject until 1967, the year that homosexual acts in private were decriminalized in England and Wales, when he painted Two Figures on a Couch, also featured in this volume. In Bacon's paintings, the human presence is evoked sometimes viscerally, at other times more fleetingly, in the form of a shadow or a blurred, watchful figure. In certain instances, the portrayal takes the form of a composite in which male and female bodily traits are transposed or fused. A number of the works in Couplings were inspired by Bacon's own fraught relationships.

Francis Bacon: Couplings features an introductory text by Richard Calvocoressi; a new essay and plate texts by Martin Harrison; and a never-before-published interview with Bacon by Richard Francis and Ian Morrison; as well as studio ephemera and working documents that illuminate Bacon's process.
A focused look at double-figure paintings by the celebrated British artist, whose disturbing portrayals radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.

This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these interrelated works, Bacon did not return to the subject until 1967, the year that homosexual acts in private were decriminalized in England and Wales, when he painted Two Figures on a Couch, also featured in this volume. In Bacon's paintings, the human presence is evoked sometimes viscerally, at other times more fleetingly, in the form of a shadow or a blurred, watchful figure. In certain instances, the portrayal takes the form of a composite in which male and female bodily traits are transposed or fused. A number of the works in Couplings were inspired by Bacon's own fraught relationships.

Francis Bacon: Couplings features an introductory text by Richard Calvocoressi; a new essay and plate texts by Martin Harrison; and a never-before-published interview with Bacon by Richard Francis and Ian Morrison; as well as studio ephemera and working documents that illuminate Bacon's process.
Über den Autor
Richard Calvocoressi is an art historian and a director and senior curator at Gagosian, London. Martin Harrison, a curator and writer on art and photography, is an authority on the work of Francis Bacon.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780847868315
ISBN-10: 0847868311
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Francis, Richard
Harrison, Martin
Calvocoressi, Richard
Morrison, Ian
Solist: Francis, Richard
Zusammengestellt: Harrison, Martin
Calvocoressi, Richard
Hersteller: Rizzoli International Publications
Maße: 307 x 231 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,947 kg
Artikel-ID: 118108803
Über den Autor
Richard Calvocoressi is an art historian and a director and senior curator at Gagosian, London. Martin Harrison, a curator and writer on art and photography, is an authority on the work of Francis Bacon.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780847868315
ISBN-10: 0847868311
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Francis, Richard
Harrison, Martin
Calvocoressi, Richard
Morrison, Ian
Solist: Francis, Richard
Zusammengestellt: Harrison, Martin
Calvocoressi, Richard
Hersteller: Rizzoli International Publications
Maße: 307 x 231 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Francis
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,947 kg
Artikel-ID: 118108803
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