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He curated or cocurated numerous major exhibitions at museums around the world, including oneman shows of picasso, miro, magritte, moore, giacometti and bacon. Watch francis bacon and the brutality of fact online. To be in francis bacon s company was to be dazzled and confused, seduced and stunned a new york letter. Oct 28, 2015 in celebration of francis bacon s birthday, check out five facts about englands most celebrated recently dead painter, in the words of robert hughes. Francis bacon and the brutality of fact a film by michael blackwood. The brutality of fact interviews with francis bacon.
Francis bacon and the brutality of fact 1987 plot summary. Bacon s intention was to present the brutality of fact, to give the sensation without the boredom of conveyance. He was also a rightwing elitist and individualist who approached the problem of creating art in the twentieth century with an honesty and intensity that have not really been matched. Francis bacon was the loudest, rudest, drunkest, most soughtafter british artist of the 20th century. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Francis bacon derives from the hundreds of occasions bacon and peppiatt sat conversing, often late into the night, over many years, and particularly when bacon was working in paris. Largely selftaught, bacon was born in dublin and moved to london when he was 16, and then to paris and berlin in the following few years. Featured movies all video latest this just in prelinger archives democracy now. This is the first half of wares essay on how we can interpret bacon s art philosophically. Goodreads members who liked interviews with francis bacon al. My books seem to vanish, and where theyve gone nobody knows.
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