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Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact
David Sylvester
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Description for Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact
Paperback. Features revealing interviews with Francis Bacon that was conducted over a period of 25 years by a distinguished art critic. In this book, Bacon considers the problems of realism, sheds new light on aspects of his life, talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 672.
The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works, responding always with vivacity and candour to Sylvester’s searching questions. Bacon’s obsessive effort ... Read more
The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works, responding always with vivacity and candour to Sylvester’s searching questions. Bacon’s obsessive effort ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500292532
SKU
V9780500292532
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About David Sylvester
David Sylvester CBE (1924–2001) was a prominent writer, art critic and curator, and a leading authority on René Magritte, Henry Moore and, in particular, Francis Bacon. He first wrote about Bacon’s work in the late 1940s, and the pair soon became close friends. Over the next forty years, he was Bacon’s Boswell, interpreter, confidant, occasional model and briefly agent. He ... Read more
Reviews for Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact
'A classic' - Guardian 'Compelling ... a profound, lucid text, precisely illustrated' - Sunday Times 'When it comes to illuminating the work of the artist, this short, nourishing book is hard to beat' - Observer 'May well have as great an influence on painting during the last quarter of the [20th] century as the critical writings of Ezra Pound and ... Read more