Francis Bacon Portraits and Heads /anglais - Softcover

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.

Martin Hammer is a senior lecturer in art history at the University of Edinburgh. He has curated a show on the artist, Graham Sutherland, for Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, which will coincide with the publication of his book, Bacon and Sutherland in 2005. He and Christina Lodder co-authored Constructing Modernity: the Art and Career of Naum Gabo, 2000. Richard Calvocoressi is Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. He has written extensively on twentieth-century art and his published works include books on Lucian Freud, Magritte and, most recently, the photographer, Lee Miller.