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Francis Bacon : portraits and heads

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Francis Bacon is celebrated as one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century.

From the 1940s to his death in 1992, he worked consistently as a painter, ignoring other passing, fashionable trends in art.

Throughout his career, the human figure was the dominant subject in his work: his paintings of men and women go far beyond a simple likeness and instead are portraits of complex psychological states.

In two essays, this book examines forty of some of his most intense works: his small-format portraits.

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190327866X / 9781903278666
Paperback
759.2
06/06/2005
United Kingdom
English
96 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
22 x 25 cm
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Published in Scotland.