In Camera - Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting

Harrison, Martin Martin Harrison,

ISBN 10: 0500296502 / ISBN 13: 9780500296509

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2022

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-GRD-9780500296509

Inhaltsangabe:

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon's most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist's stylistic development.

Key influences, including the masters Velázquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon's work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron.

With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon's painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Martin Harrison is one of the foremost scholars of Francis Bacon, and the editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: In Camera - Francis Bacon: Photography, Film...
Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: paperback
Zustand: New