Lucian Freud: Paintings - Softcover

Robert Hughes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500275351 ISBN 13: 9780500275351

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: October 1997 Pages: 136 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson It is both startling and disconcerting. producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images on to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud-once dubbed the Ingres of existentialism -has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist possesses his ability to paint the texture and thinness of skin over flesh. and his distinctive portraits have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget . This volume. with over one hundred superb reproductions of his greatest paintings. pays tribute to one of the most original and accomplished artists of the twentieth century.

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Product Description:

The critic Robert Hughes describes Lucian Freud's quest for a reality beyond naturalism, which has produced some of the most powerful and moving paintings - particularly portraits - of recent decades. Hughes is also author of The Shock of the New, the book of the television series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0500275351
• ISBN 13: 9780500275351
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136