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Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art

Door Wilfried Seipel e.a.

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#322737-KB18
Titel
Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art
Auteur
Seipel, Wilfried & Barbara Steffen & Christoph Vitali (editors)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Milano : Skira editore
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
8884917212
ISBN13
9788884917218
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
original black boards, dust jacket, richly illusrated in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting
This exhibition catalogue is not a retrospective but rather an examination for the first time of the artist's work within a network of relationships and influences from the Old Masters to the artists of the twentieth century.
The eminent English painter Francis Bacon (19091992) is known for his brutal, haunting and grotesque portraits of man and beast. In this eyeopening study Bacon stands besides artists like Velazquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Ingres, Degas, Schiele, and Van Gogh - his real sources. To support this thesis, the text draws connections between Bacon and his predecessors according to themes: Bacon's papal portraits, the Motif of the Scream, Bacon and Surrealism, Mirrors and Reflections, the Cage Motif. This sumptuously illustrated book offers a firsttime study of a modernist's wo
... (Lees verder)rk in relation to the masterpieces of art history.
Exhibition schedule: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna October 15, 2003 - January 18, 2004
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, February 8, 2004 - June 20, 2004

This exhibition catalogue is not a retrospective but rather an examination for the first time of the artist's work within a network of relationships and influences from the Old Masters to the artists of the twentieth century.
The eminent English painter Francis Bacon (19091992) is known for his brutal, haunting and grotesque portraits of man and beast. In this eyeopening study Bacon stands besides artists like Velazquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Ingres, Degas, Schiele, and Van Gogh - his real sources. To support this thesis, the text draws connections between Bacon and his predecessors according to themes: Bacon's papal portraits, the Motif of the Scream, Bacon and Surrealism, Mirrors and Reflections, the Cage Motif. This sumptuously illustrated book offers a firsttime study of a modernist's work in relation to the masterpieces of art history.
Exhibition schedule: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna October 15, 2003 - January 18, 2004
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, February 8, 2004 - June 20, 2004
Pagina's
371
Conditie
Redelijk — Dust jacket damaged and repaired; small piece dust jacket missing; permanent marker line on top cut; some tobacco smell.
Prijs
€ 45,00

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