Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters - Softcover

Gayford, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500294704 ISBN 13: 9780500294703

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2019

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'An anecdote-rich study of the geniuses and oddballs - Bacon, Freud, Hockney and more - who revived British art after the Second World War' - The Times 'A masterpiece ... a major work of art history' - Wall Street Journal 'A seminal work: limpidly written, replete with lightly worn scholarship and unrivalled intimate knowledge' - William Boyd, New Statesman 'Superb ... you hang on to every word' - Rachel Cooke, Observer 'All the good stories, and more, are here ... a genuinely encyclopaedic work ... Everybody interested in the subject should read it' - Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 'A wise and authoritative account of the post-war London art scene' - Artists & Illustrators

Reseña del editor:

‘If you are interested in modern British art, the book is ­unputdownable. If you are not, read it’ Grey Gowrie, Financial Times

‘What can painting do?’

This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.

Drawing on decades of interviews, Martin Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the Swinging Sixties. It is a story of friendships, experiences and artistic concerns shared between talented individuals who each developed their own singular approach to painting. All passionately believed that even in the age of new media, an ancient form could do fresh and marvellous things.

Table of Contents

1. 14 Abercorn Place · 2. Pope Francis · 3. Euston Road in Camberwell · 4. The Spirit in the
Mass (at Borough Polytechnic) · 5. Girl with Roses · 6. Leaping into the Void · 7. Translating
Life into Art: Bacon and Freud in the 50s · 8. Two Climbers Roped Together: Auerbach and
Kossoff · 9. An Arena in Which to Act · 10. What Makes the Modern Home so Different? ·
11. The Situation in London, 1960 · 12. The Artist Thinks: Hockney and his Contemporaries

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0500294704
• ISBN 13: 9780500294703
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392