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Francis Bacon, the Violence of the Real / edited by Armin Zweite in collaboration with Maria Mèuller ; texts by Peter Bèurger ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Thames & Hudson, [2006]Description: 254 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 x 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780500093351 .
  • 9780500093351 .
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Partial contents:
Introduction / Armin Zweite -- The potraits as a problem for modernist art / Peter Bürger -- Francis Bacon: extreme points of realism / Martin Harrison -- Working documents from Francis Bacon's studio -- Bacon's scream / Armin Zweite -- Paintings 1945-1991 -- Notes to commentaries
Summary: Francis Bacon was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form. He portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body and at the centre of this volume are about 60 of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death.
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Includes bibliographical references

Introduction / Armin Zweite -- The potraits as a problem for modernist art / Peter Bürger -- Francis Bacon: extreme points of realism / Martin Harrison -- Working documents from Francis Bacon's studio -- Bacon's scream / Armin Zweite -- Paintings 1945-1991 -- Notes to commentaries

Francis Bacon was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form. He portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body and at the centre of this volume are about 60 of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Bacon: the Violence of the Real, K20 Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dèusseldorf, 16 September 2006 - 7 January 2007."-t.p. verso

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