The Times Art Book of the Year 2021FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022¿Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ¿ A biography that no Bacon fan ¿ or indeed foe ¿ can afford to overlook ¿ Mesmerising¿ THE TIMES¿A magnificent triumph ¿ I was captivated by every line¿ OBSERVERA decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have written a startlingly original portrait ¿ rich, complex, and subtle ¿ of a commanding modern figure.Bacon concealed many important aspects of his life. He described himself as an asthmatic child in Ireland with foxhunting parents and a tyrannical father, but he was also rescued by a series of formidable women ¿ women who in this biography emerge in their own right. He was never just a dissolute young man but was also a passionate reader, largely self-taught. Early on, influenced by Eileen Gray, he became a hard-working and ambitious designer, a brief career explor
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Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock,...
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This volume presents a new translation by Michael Silverthorne of Bacon's revolutionary work of scientific philosophy, together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets it in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities.
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