Francis Bacon

by Carter Ratcliff, Poul Erik Tøjner, Steingrim Laursen

This affordable and generous selection from the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) offers text by a wide range of critics, and provides an invaluable introduction to Britain's greatest post-war painter. The continued fascination in Bacon's work is examined in detail here, as is a biographical chronology of the artist's life and career. Largely self-taught, Bacon nevertheless had a voracious visual appetite for the history of painting, and his place within that history is made evident by this amply illustrated volume.
Bilingual, Danish and English.

Genres: Philosophy

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Miglė · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imagining extraordinary scenes isn't at all interesting from the point of view by painting. It's not imagination. Real imagination is constructed by technical imagination. The rest is imaginary imagination and it leads nowhere

People say, "Relax!" What do they mean? I don't understand people who relax their muscles, relax everything.

I love Bacon's paintings and I love his lucid extraordinary mind. A very nice little book you can carry around and read for inspiration or just look at the reproductions.