Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Gayford, Martin

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before...
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Gayford, Martin

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

$562.08

Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

$562.08
Author: Martin Gayford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley.

Modernists and Mavericks explores this period based on an exceptionally deep well of firsthand interviews, often unpublished, with such artists as Victor Pasmore, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Euan Uglow, Howard Hodgkin, Terry Frost, Gillian Ayres, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Frank Bowling, Leon Kossoff, John Hoyland, and Patrick Caulfield. But Martin Gayford also teases out the thread weaving these individual lives together and demonstrates how and why, long after it was officially declared dead, painting lived and thrived in London. Simultaneously aware of the influences of Jackson Pollock, Giacometti, and (through the teaching passed down at the major art school) the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were bound by their confidence that this ancient medium could do fresh and marvelous things, and explored in their diverse ways, the possibilities of paint.



Author: Martin Gayford
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 06/12/2018
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780500239773


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2018 pg. 69
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2018

About the Author
Gayford, Martin: - Martin Gayford is an art critic for The Spectator. His books include Modernists & Mavericks, Man with a Blue Scarf, A Bigger Message, Rendez-vous with Art (with Philippe de Montebello), A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), and most recently, The Pursuit of Art.

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