TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gayford,Martin
TI  - Modernists & mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London painters 
SN  - 9780500239773
AV  - ND470 .G39 2018
U1  - 759.2/1 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Bacon, Francis,
KW  - Freud, Lucian.
KW  - Hockney, David.
KW  - Freud, Lucian,
KW  - Hockney, David,
KW  - Painting, English
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Painters
KW  - History
KW  - Kunstbetrieb
KW  - gnd
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -