The brutality of fact : interviews with Francis Bacon
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The brutality of fact : interviews with Francis Bacon
Thames and Hudson, 2016
[3rd ed]
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Interviews with Francis Bacon
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"This edition 2016"--T.p. verso
"First published in the United Kingdom in 1975 as Interviews with Francis Bacon ... ; Second edition 1980 ;Third enlarged edition published in the United Kingdom in 1987 as The brutality of fact ; Reprinted 1993 as Interviews with Francis Bacon"--T.p. verso
"3rd edition , with 141 illustrations"--Flap of cover
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Description
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
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