Francis Bacon: Books and Painting by Ottinger, Didier

Francis Bacon: Books and Painting

Published to accompany a major Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris, which will travel to the Fine Arts...
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Author: Didier Ottinger
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Francis Bacon: Books and Painting by Ottinger, Didier

Francis Bacon: Books and Painting

$135.90

Francis Bacon: Books and Painting

$135.90
Author: Didier Ottinger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Published to accompany a major Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris, which will travel to the Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Francis Bacon analyzes Bacon's works from 1971 onward in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed overanalysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic terms; he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conjured up by certain texts: Aeschylus's phrase "the reek of human blood smiles out at me" particularly haunted Bacon, while his 1978 work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land. An inventory of Bacon's personal library has identified more than 1,300 books, ranging from Georges Bataille and Joseph Conrad to Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Leiris.

Including twelve of Bacon's renowned triptychs, this lavish publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings created by Bacon between 1971 and his death in 1992. Reproduced here with analyses of Bacon's paintings in the light of some of his most admired authors, these specially commissioned texts reveal new ways of understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern canon.



Author: Didier Ottinger, Chris Stephens, Miguel Egaña
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 01/14/2020
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.40lbs
Size: 12.00h x 9.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780500239988

About the Author
Egaña, Miguel: - ñOttinger, Didier: - Didier Ottinger is assistant director of the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.Stephens, Chris: - Chris Stephens is the director of the Holburne Museum, Bath.
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