Bacon

by Luigi Ficacci

Overview

A concise and gripping encounter with Francis Bacon, one of the most individual, powerful, and disturbing painters of the 20th century. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon developed a unique figurative form, distorted, dismembered, and writhing with intense emotional content.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836559690
Publisher:	Taschen America, LLC
Publication date:	07/31/2015
Series:	Basic Art
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	516,501
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Luigi Ficacci studied art history in Rome under Giulio Carlo Argan. For many years, he was curator at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome and general museum director (Soprintendente ai Beni Culturali) in Bologna and in Lucca. He also lectured at various Italian universities. Until 2021, he was director of the Central Institute for Restoration (Istituto centrale per il restauro) in Rome. The focal points of his research work are the issues raised by 17th and 18th century and contemporary Italian and European art.

Table of Contents

	"My whole life goes into my work" The Poetics of Francis Bacon	6
	"Obsessed by life" The Expression of Horror	12
	"The sensation without the boredom of its conveyance" The Human Body	30
	"Painting is the most artificial of the arts" The Scene of the Tragedy	56
	"The living quality" Portraits	70
	"I think of myself as a maker of images" Sources of Inspiration	80
	Biography	88