Research Catalog

Title

In camera - Francis Bacon : photography, film and the practice of painting / Martin Harrison.

Author

Harrison, Martin, 1945-

Publication

• London : Thames and Hudson, 2022.
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992.

Description

256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 29 cm

Summary

"Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon’s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist’s stylistic development. Key influences, including the masters Velázquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon’s work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon’s painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work"--

Subject

• Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 > Criticism and interpretation
• Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Previous edition: 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

After Picasso -- Michelangelo and Muybridge -- Raw material -- In camera -- Skin / flicks.

ISBN

• 9780500296509
• 0500296502

LCCN

99991760908

OCLC

• 60772389
• ocm60772389
• SCSB-14322629

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries