Research Catalog

Title

Francis Bacon : revelations / Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.

Author

Stevens, Mark, 1951-

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Swan, Annalyn

Description

xiv, 861 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"A decade in the making: the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the most iconic painters of the 20th century--from the Pulitzer-prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both English art and life--from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych of 1944 (its images "so unrelievedly awful" that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992. He was a free spirit and unabashed homosexual at a time when many others remained closeted, and his exploits were as unforgettable as his images. He moved between the worlds of London's Soho and East End, the literary salons of London and Paris, the homosexual underground of Spain, the south of France, Tangier, and cities everywhere. Through hundreds of interviews, and extensive new research, the authors probe Bacon's childhood in Ireland (he earned his father's lasting disdain because his asthma prevented him from hunting), his developing homosexuality; his early design career--never before explored in detail; the formation of his artistic vision; to his early failure as an artist; his uneasy relationship to American abstract art; his improbable late emergence onto the international stage as one of the great visionaries of modern art. In all, Francis Bacon: Revelations gives us a more complete and nuanced--and more international--portrait than ever before of this singularly private, darkly funny, eruptive man and his equally eruptive, extraordinary art"--

Subjects

• Painters
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
• ART / History / European
• ART
• Biographies
• Great Britain
• Painters > Great Britain > Biography
• Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQE 21-296

ISBN

• 9780307271624
• 0307271625

LCCN

2020000325

OCLC

1137206040

Author

Stevens, Mark, 1951- author.

Title

Francis Bacon : revelations / Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Swan, Annalyn, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Swan, Annalyn. Francis Bacon New York : Alfred. A Knopf, 2020 9780525656746 (DLC) 2020000326

Research Call Number

JQE 21-296