Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact

David Sylvester

ISBN 10: 0500292531 / ISBN 13: 9780500292532

Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2016

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Features revealing interviews with Francis Bacon that was conducted over a period of 25 years by a distinguished art critic. In this book, Bacon considers the problems of realism, sheds new light on aspects of his life, talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 672. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780500292532

Bibliographic Details

Title: Interviews with Francis Bacon: The Brutality...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

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.

Table of Contents

Preface · 9 interviews · Editorial note

Review:

'The most celebrated documentation of the painter' - Sunday Telegraph 'Endlessly fascinating' - The Spectator 'May well have as great an influence on painting during the last quarter of the [20th] century as the critical writings of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot had on poetry during the 1920s and 1930s' - Stephen Spender 'When it comes to illuminating the work of the artist, this short, nourishing book is hard to beat' - Observer 'Compelling ... a profound, lucid text, precisely illustrated' - Sunday Times 'A classic' - Guardian