FRANCIS BACON PA (PEPPIATT)

by PEPPIATT,MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9781602397620
• ISBN10: 1602397627
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-09-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable, his paintings continue to challenge interpretations and provoke controversy. Bacon was also an extraordinary personality. Generous but cruel, forthright yet manipulative, ebullient but in despair: He was the sum of his contradictions. This life, lived at extremes, was filled with achievement and triumph, misfortune and personal tragedy. In his revised and updated edition of an already brilliant biography, Michael Peppiatt has drawn on fresh material that has become available in the sixteen years since the artist's death. Most important, he includes confidential material given to him by Bacon but omitted from the first edition. Francis Bacon derives from the hundreds of occasions Bacon and Peppiatt sat conversing, often late into the night, over many years, and particularly when Bacon was working in Paris. We are also given insight into Bacon's intimate relationships, his artistic convictions and views on life, as well as his often acerbic comments on his contemporaries.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
1909-44
The Weakling of the Family', 1909-26	p. 3
Educated Abroad: Berlin and Paris, 1926-28	p. 28
A Brief Apprenticeship, 1928-33	p. 54
'Insufficiently Surreal', 1933-39	p. 73
A Vision without Veils, 1939-44	p. 94
1944-63
Father Figures and Crucifixions, 1944-46	p. 115
Towards Other Shores, 1946-50	p. 133
Hounded by Furies, 1950-54	p. 159
Truth Told by a Lie, 1954-58	p. 186
Recognition at Home: The Tate Retrospective, 1958-63	p. 215
1963-92
'A Brilliant Fool Like Me', 1963-69	p. 243
All the Honours of Paris, 1969-72	p. 273
Elegy for the Dead, 1972-75	p. 298
'My Exhilarated Despair', 1975-80	p. 328
Alone in the Studio, 1980-84	p. 357
'The Greatest Living Painter', 1984-92	p. 375
Postscript: The Afterlife of an Atheist	p. 393
Notes	p. 419
Selected Bibliography	p. 444
Index	p. 449
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