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Bacon's menacing pictures of twisted human torsos, rabid dogs and dismembered men stranded amid carcasses made him a fashionable painter in the 1960s. But what has he been doing in the '80s? As this concise retrospective reveals, the British painter's obsessions and methods have scarcely changed. In his recent pictures, water from a running tap becomes a torrential cyclone; Mick Jagger's face is a cry of despair; a bloodstain on a floor plank suspended in space shocks and outrages; distorted human figures, set against pastel or bright-orange backdrops, perplex. This album combines 155 color reproductions with a perceptive 15-page essay by French ethnographer Leiris who explores Bacon's use of distortions, jazz-like breaks and empty spaces in canvases fraught with good and evil. He aptly compares Bacon's paintings to flash photographs that transform banal details into disturbing presences.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great illustrated book about F. Bacon,
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This review is from: Francis Bacon (Hardcover)
If you're looking for a book with a lot of color plates and great reproduction about F. Bacon paintings, that's the one (155 in color)! Get the 1983 edition, not the newer one as I heard complaint about the quality of the plates.
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"Possibly The Best Bacon Book",
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This review is from: Francis Bacon: Full face and in profile (Hardcover)
this is a terrific book, and if you are lucky enough to find this original edition and not the 2008 reprint(not very good ,small, cruddy reproductions)you will find what is quite possibly the best monograph available on the artist. The essay by Msser. Leiris is classic french surrealist scrabble at it's best, the reproductions are mostly full page and are nice, plus there are several hundred, which is a good thing...don't miss this book, if you are any kind of Francis Bacon fan you wont.
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A lot of pictures, horrible language,
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This review is from: Francis Bacon: Full face and in profile (Hardcover)
This book contains a lot of Francis Bacon's works, which is great. However, the language is terrible: Every sentence is unnaturally long, and it's a real pain to read. I recommend finding a different book if you're interesting in reading more about Bacon.
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