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Looking back at Francis Bacon David Sylvester.

By:

Sylvester, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Thames & Hudson , c2000Description: 272 p. : illus. ; 28 cmISBN:

9780500019948

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.24 BAC

LOC classification:

QH31.M45 H464 2000

Summary: David Sylvester provides the definitive account of the career of an artist whose friend and collaborator he was for more than forty years. Drawing on his unparalled personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations and intentions, he first offers a critical overview of the development of Bacon's work from 1933 to the early 1990's, and then addresses its crucial aspects. Sylvester also reporduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself , modern painters, and the art of the past.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.24 BAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015616

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Includes bibliographical references and index

David Sylvester provides the definitive account of the career of an artist whose friend and collaborator he was for more than forty years. Drawing on his unparalled personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations and intentions, he first offers a critical overview of the development of Bacon's work from 1933 to the early 1990's, and then addresses its crucial aspects. Sylvester also reporduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself , modern painters, and the art of the past.

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