Interviews With Francis Bacon

Author: David Sylvester

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  • : $45.00 NZD
  • : 9780500292532
  • : Thames & Hudson, Limited
  • : Thames & Hudson Ltd
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  • : 0.64
  • : September 2016
  • : 231mm X 166mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 42.0
  • : October 2016
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  • : David Sylvester
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  • : Paperback
  • : 3rd Revised edition
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  • : English
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  • : 208
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Barcode 9780500292532
9780500292532

Description

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 to record and re-create the human form, his practice of making variation on old masters' painting and on photographs, his dependence on chance, and his views about the way in which his work has been interpreted are only some of the many subjects discussed and investigated in depth during these historic encounters.