Description: Please note we do not work weekends. All offers, questions, or concerns may not be answered until Monday. Please understand this means you may need to resubmit your offer Sunday evening. Thank you for supporting our libraries and have a great weekend. Bacon's menacing pictures of twisted human torsos, rabid dogs and dismembered men stranded amid carcasses made him a fashionable painter in the 1960s. But what has he been doing in the '80s? As this concise retrospective reveals, the British painter's obsessions and methods have scarcely changed. In his recent pictures, water from a running tap becomes a torrential cyclone; Mick Jagger's face is a cry of despair; a bloodstain on a floor plank suspended in space shocks and outrages; distorted human figures, set against pastel or bright-orange backdrops, perplex. This album combines 155 color reproductions with a perceptive 15-page essay by French ethnographer Leiris who explores Bacon's use of distortions, jazz-like breaks and empty spaces in canvases fraught with good and evil. He aptly compares Bacon's paintings to flash photographs that transform banal details into disturbing presences. All proceeds benefit the Libraries of Pima County. Please review all photos. This listing has been donated. Please note that the listing is for what you see in the listing. We photograph all of it so you know what you are purchasing. The sale of the item(s) benefits Friends of the Pima Library (501c3 non-profit).
Price: 88 USD
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Book Title: Francis Bacon
Signed: No
Ex Libris: Yes
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Rizzoli
Original Language: French
Item Length: 12 in
Inscribed: Yes
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1983
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Era: 1980s
Illustrator: Francis Bacon
Item Height: 2 in
Author: Michel Leiris, Rizzoli
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Art & Culture
Topic: Artists, Art Theory
Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
Item Width: 10 in
Number of Pages: 271
