All too human : Bacon, Freud and a century of painting life
2018
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Click and Collect for All too human : Bacon, Freud and a century of painting lifeThis book presents a new account of one of the most distinctive, long-lasting and fascinating chapters of modern British art: how artists have used painting to record their personal, sensuous, immediate and often intense experiences of life. Spanning a century, this history encompasses a diverse but related group of painters, mostly based in London, who focused on the depiction of the human figure and the everyday landscape they inhabited. Despite their great differences, these artists all shared a similarly intense and scrutinizing gaze, and remained loyal to their pursuit of intimate and powerful representations of reality. Focusing primarily on painters active in the second half of the twentieth century, including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego, F.N. Souza and Euan Uglow, the book begins by introducing the previous generation of artists, such as Walter Richard Sickert, David Bomberg, Alberto Giacometti, Chaim Soutine, Stanley Spencer and William Coldstream, who set a new path for portraying an intimate, subjective and tangible reality. It also addresses the relationship between image-making, painting and photography, before illustrating Paula Rego's key role in channelling the material and psychological states we experience, and how she became a role-model for the many female painters who, from the 1970s onwards, had abandoned painting as a masculine activity. Continuing on this trajectory, the book also features works by contemporary artists such as Jenny Saville, Cecily Brown and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who paint figures in a manner that feels true to their personal experience of life.
Main title:
All too human : Bacon, Freud and a century of painting life / edited by Elena Crippa.
Imprint:
London : Tate Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), portraits (colour) ; 27 cm.
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a century of painting life held at the Tate Britain, London, 28 February - 27 August 2018 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 5 October 2018 - 14 January 2019.Includes index and bibliographical references (pages 211-212)
ISBN:
9781849765831
Dewey class:
700.411
Language:
English
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BRN:
340378
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Art and Craft | 700.411 ALL | Available |
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