Modernists & mavericks : Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London painters / Martin Gayford.
Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.Description: 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780500239773
- 0500239770
- Modernists and mavericks
- Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992
- Freud, Lucian
- Hockney, David
- Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992
- Freud, Lucian, 1922-2011
- Hockney, David, 1937-
- Painting, English -- England -- London -- 20th century
- Painters -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century
- Kunstbetrieb
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- London
- 759.2/1 23
- ND470 .G39 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 759.2 GAY | Available | 068109 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. Young Lucian: art in wartime London -- 2. Pope Francis -- 3. Euston Road in Camberwell -- 4. Spirit in the mass: the Borough Polytechnic -- 5. Girl with roses -- 6. Leaping into the void -- 7 Life into art: Bacon and Freud in the 1950s -- 8. Two climbers roped together -- 9. What makes the modern home so different? -- 10. An arena in which to act -- 11. The situation in London, 1960 -- 12. The artist thinks: Hockney and his contemporaries -- 13. The grin without the cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s -- 14. American connections -- 15. Mysterious conventionality -- 16. Portrait surrounded by artistic devices -- 17. Shimmering and dissolving -- 18. The non-existence of action -- Epilogue.
The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a 'substantial School of London' was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley.