Nine interviews with Francis Bacon spanning over twenty years from 1962 to 1986 which give invaluable insight into the creative mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists
This book with its subsequent revised and augmented editions--has been considered a classic of its kind, and that reputation has become worldwide.
This is a physical, emotional, historical, sexual, and political bombardment - the measure of a man creative and compromised, erotic and masochistic, inexplicable and inspired. Author of "Lanny."
THE TIMES BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD AND THE APOLLO AWARD • “There are not many biographical masterpieces, but…Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have produced one,” wrote the novelist John Banville of ...
2002 reprint of previously published The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. The cover is updated. This edition was printed and bound in Singapore. 146 illustrations.
Divided into the sections 'Review', 'Reflections', 'Fragments of Talk' and 'Biographical Note', Looking Back at Francis Bacon is a unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of our age by a writer of comparable distinction.
This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that took place since 1963.
This introductory volume shows the best of Francis Bacon's work.
Bacon is felt with immediacy, as Peppiatt draws from contemporary diaries and records of their time together, giving us the story of a friendship, and a new perspective on an artist of enduring fascination.
Francis Bacon (1909-92) speaks openly to his close friend Michel Archimbaud, whose searching questions shed a new light on Bacon's work. The discussion is wide-ranging, touching on painting, literature and...
Francis Bacon: The Human Body concentrates, for the first time, on paintings involving the human figure, Bacon's central subject. The book is written by the critic and writer David Sylvester, author of Interviews with Francis Bacon.