Francis Bacon: 1909-1992

by Ficacci, Luigi

• ISBN13: 9783822821985
• ISBN10: 3822821985
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Summary

FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM. MIXING REALISM AND ABSTRACTION, BACON DELVES DEEP BENEATH THE SURFACES OF THINGS, OPENING UP THE HUMAN BODY TO REVEAL THE CHAOS THAT LIES WITHIN AND STRUGGLING WITH ALL THAT IS INEXPLICABLE. EROTIC AND GROTESQUELY BEAUTIFUL IS THE WORK OF THIS LEGENDARY PAINTER WHOSE HAUNTING, DISTORTED FIGURES HAVE INSPIRED ENTIRE GENERATIONS OF PAINTERS WHO SEEK TO EMULATE HIS HIGHLY ORIGINAL STYLE.

Table of Contents

"My whole life goes into my work" The Poetics of Francis Bacon	p. 6
"Obsessed by life" The Expression of Horror	p. 12
"The sensation without the boredom of its conveyance" The Human Body	p. 30
"Painting is the most artificial of the arts" The Scene of the Tragedy	p. 56
"The living quality" Portraits	p. 70
"I think of myself as a maker of images" Sources of Inspiration	p. 80
Biography	p. 88
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