| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
861 pages : illustrations (some color), plates, photographs (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note(S) |
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf" -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"I" -- Boy at the Window -- Weakling -- Arousal -- The Queerness of Cities -- Marvelous Women -- Gallant Men -- Stage Sets -- Starting Over -- Early Success -- Early Failure -- Breakdowns -- Wilderness -- Good Boys and Bad -- Sewer Boots -- Iconoclast -- "I began" -- The Road South -- Mr. Hyde -- Soho Nights -- Brothers and Lovers -- Wilde Man -- Follies -- Homeless -- Love and Power -- The Violence of Grass -- Shades of Blue -- Tangier -- Limbo -- Bets -- The Fig Tree -- "Such Ardour" -- Settling In -- Younger Crowds -- Ancient Rhymes -- Hommage à Bacon -- "Icon" -- A Toast to Death -- An Englishman Abroad -- Echoes -- Spectacle -- Friends and Rivals -- Love and Money -- Performance Artist -- The Last Picture Show -- Fresh Faces -- Suddenly! -- Curtain Calls -- Borrowed Time -- An Errand. |
| Summary |
"Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both English art and life--from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych of 1944 (its images "so unrelievedly awful" that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992. He was a free spirit and unabashed homosexual at a time when many others remained closeted, and his exploits were as unforgettable as his images. He moved between the worlds of London's Soho and East End, the literary salons of London and Paris, the homosexual underground of Spain, the south of France, Tangier, and cities everywhere. Through hundreds of interviews, and extensive new research, the authors probe Bacon's childhood in Ireland (he earned his father's lasting disdain because his asthma prevented him from hunting), his developing homosexuality; his early design career--never before explored in detail; the formation of his artistic vision; to his early failure as an artist; his uneasy relationship to American abstract art; his improbable late emergence onto the international stage as one of the great visionaries of modern art." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992.
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| Subject(S) |
Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Added Name(S) |
Swan, Annalyn, author.
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| ISBN |
9780307271624 (hardcover) |
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0307271625 (hardcover) |
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