Francis Bacon /

The art of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) epitomises the angst at the heart of the modern human condition. His dramatic images of screaming figures and distorted anatomies are painted with a richly gestural technique, alluding to such old masters as Titian, Velazquez and Rembrandt. Displaying repressed a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammer, Martin (autor)
Format: Book
Language:Spanish
English
Published: London: Phaidon, 2013.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A modern Master
  • Confronting bacon
  • Focus The silvetre interviews
  • Bacon and existentialism
  • Photographic sources
  • Formation, 1920-54
  • Mid carrer, 1955-70
  • Later years, 1970-92 Chronology
  • Further reading
  • list of works.