Francis
Bacon : A Retrospective
by Dennis Farr
This book accompanies the traveling retrospective that inaugurated
the newly reopened Yale Center for British Art in January 1999. Francis
Bacon (1909-1992), the eminent British painter known for his large, colorful,
and grotesque paintings of the human body, was very controlling of what
was written about his work during his lifetime; this book marks the first
time that each painting is individually discussed in print. Included in
the book are essays that provide great insight into Bacon's life and personality.
Especially revealing is an essay by Michael Peppiatt, Bacon's close friend
and biographer (he wrote Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma). Bacon lived
a life of heavy drinking, gambling, and socializing, and Peppiatt discusses
this lifestyle in relation to the work: "Bacon himself pretended he painted
particularly well with a hangover. 'My mind simply crackles with electricity
after one of those evenings.'"
Along with beautiful reproductions of the paintings are some photographs
of Bacon's studio, which is astounding in its filth. The floor is littered
with various detritus; brushes and paint tubes are everywhere. Bacon's
intensity is as evident in these studio shots as in the paintings with
contorted figures and grimacing, bruise-colored faces. You can practically
watch the human body decay in front of your eyes. --Jennifer Cohen -
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Francis
Bacon: A Painter of Dark Vision
by Christophe Domino, Ruth Sharman (Translator)
Paperback - 136 pages (May 1997)
Harry N Abrams; ISBN: 0810928116
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Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio
by John Edwards, Perry Ogden (Photographer)
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Francis
Bacon's Personal Life Story
by Alfred Dodd
(Paperback - March 1997
Bacon's
Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive
by Georgia Mazower (Editor), et al
(Paperback)
Looking
Back at Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester, Francis Bacon
(Hardcover - September 2000)
Blimey!
: From Bohemia to Britpop : The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien
Hirst
by Matthew Collings, et al
(Paperback - January 1998)
Bacon
: Portraits and Self-Portraits
by Francis Bacon, et al
(Hardcover - April 1997)
Francis
Bacon : A Retrospective
by Dennis Farr, et al
(Hardcover - April 1999)
Francis
Bacon (World of Art)
by John Russell
(Paperback - October 1993)
Interviews
With Francis Bacon : The Brutality of Fact
by David Sylvester
(Paperback - February 1988)
Francis
Bacon : Important Paintings from the Estate
by Francis Bacon
(Hardcover - February 1999)
Francis
Bacon : The Human Body
by David Sylvester
(Paperback - May 1998)
Francis
Bacon and the Loss of Self (Essays in Art and Culture)
by Ernst Van Alphen, et al
(Paperback - April 1994)
Francis
Bacon
by Perez Zagorin
(Paperback)
Francis
Bacon
by John Russell
(Hardcover - July 1979)
Francis
Bacon (British Artists Series)
by Andrew Brighton
(Paperback)
Francis
Bacon's Legacy of Texts : The Art of Discovery Grows With Discovery (Georgia
State Literary Studies, No 5)
by William A. Sessions (Editor)
(Hardcover - July 1990)
Francis
Bacon in Conversation With Michel Archimbaud
by Francis Bacon, Michel Archimbaud
(Paperback - March 1994)
Francis
Bacon : Working on Paper
by David Sylvester (Introduction), et al
(Paperback - June 1999)
Francis
Bacon : Commitment and Conflict
by Wieland Schmied
(Hardcover - August 1997)
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