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Francis Bacon: Human Presence

內容簡介

內容簡介 Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. As well as the artist’s self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.The first publication in over 20 years dedicated to the portraits of Francis Bacon, this book accompanies the exhibition of the same name opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in October 2024. From his renowned triptychs and paintings of ghostly figures, to tender and psychologically revealing individual portraits, the figurative works displayed in this publication chart the development of a groundbreaking artist, highlighting the influence of his peers and other artists.Edited and with introductory texts by National Portrait Gallery curator, Rosie Broadley, Francis Bacon: Portraits also features biographies and photographs of Bacon and his circle, bringing lesser-told stories to the fore. A series of short essays from a range of contemporary thinkers and experts on Bacon explore the individuality of the artist through different lenses, providing fresh perspectives on the artist, his portraits and his world.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Rosie BroadleyRosie Broadley is Senior Curator, 20th-Century Collections, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has contributed to publications including Paul McCartney 1964: Eyes of the Storm (2023), BP Portrait Award 2018 (2018), Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise (2018) and Laura Knight Portraits (2013).Richard CalvocoressiRichard Calvocoressi is a scholar and art historian. He has served as a curator at the Tate, London, director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and director of the Henry Moore Foundation. He joined Gagosian in 2015. Calvocoressi’s Georg Baselitz was published by Thames and Hudson in May 2021.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 本書以1950年代及以後的作品為主，探討培根(Francis Bacon)與肖像畫之間的深厚聯繫，以及他如何挑戰這一類別的傳統定義。