2008, ISBN: 34bbee17a649af66cabd24620a8561b0

[SC: 31.54], Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, 2008. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, pp. 256, illustrated. As new copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. ' The painting of Francis Baco… Altro …

[SC: 31.54], Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, 2008. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, pp. 256, illustrated. As new copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. ' The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) defines the shattered self-image of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, and his wracked human figures are now basic to the twentieth century's visual lexicon. Clearing away all moral scaffolding, Bacon made room for what he called "the brutality of fact" to implode onto his canvases, paring back his subjects to animal function and bloodlust. In Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Guston). Francis Bacon had few better critics of his work than himself--as witnessed in this superb statement of intent to David Sylvester: "What I want to do is distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance." But one of the few writers whose sensibility he trusted was the French author Michel Leiris. Leiris shared Bacon's feel for nerve-end acuity in art, as his great autobiography Manhood attests, and with Bacon's sanction, wrote the essay for Poligrafa's landmark monograph of 1987, which also included a selection of 240 key paintings made by Bacon himself. That volume, an essential text for Bacon fans and scholars, is here revised and reprinted for the first time.' - the publisher<

2008, ISBN: 34bbee17a649af66cabd24620a8561b0

Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, 2008. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, pp. 256, illustrated. As new copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. ' The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992… Altro …

Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, 2008. Quarto, illustrated boards, cloth spine, pp. 256, illustrated. As new copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. ' The painting of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) defines the shattered self-image of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, and his wracked human figures are now basic to the twentieth century's visual lexicon. Clearing away all moral scaffolding, Bacon made room for what he called ""the brutality of fact"" to implode onto his canvases, paring back his subjects to animal function and bloodlust. In Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Guston). Francis Bacon had few better critics of his work than himself--as witnessed in this superb statement of intent to David Sylvester: ""What I want to do is distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance."" But one of the few writers whose sensibility he trusted was the French author Michel Leiris. Leiris shared Bacon's feel for nerve-end acuity in art, as his great autobiography Manhood attests, and with Bacon's sanction, wrote the essay for Poligrafa's landmark monograph of 1987, which also included a selection of 240 key paintings made by Bacon himself. That volume, an essential text for Bacon fans and scholars, is here revised and reprinted for the first time.' - the publisher, 0<

2008, ISBN: 34bbee17a649af66cabd24620a8561b0

Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafa, Original half cloth, illustratewd with numerous (full page) colour illustrations, 4to. 235p. Gut: Small stain back cover. This is a magnificently illustrat… Altro …

Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafa, Original half cloth, illustratewd with numerous (full page) colour illustrations, 4to. 235p. Gut: Small stain back cover. This is a magnificently illustrated volume that showcases the unique work of Francis Bacon - one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists. The centenary of Francis Bacon's birth is being celebrated with major exhibitions at the Tate Britain, The Prado Museum in Madrid, and The Metropolitan Museum in New York. Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was arguably one of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his fellow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of art. His oeuvre undoubtedly includes some of the most extraordinary and powerful paintings in modern art.Published to coincide with the centenary of the artist's birth, this magnificently illustrated volume features more than 140 stunning reproductions of Bacon's work - including his series of portraits and self-portraits, the strangely beautiful yet terrifying variations of Velazquez's Pope Innocent X , the painfully moving Crucifixion , his enigmatic figure studies, and twelve gatefold's of the powerful triptychs - all of which were selected for inclusion in this monograph by the artist himself before his death in 1992.Malerei 2008<