Lucian Freud by Phoebe Hoban

Lucian Freud by Phoebe Hoban

Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge. In Hoban’s dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination. Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itself—its influences, models, and technique—to show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real.

A first step toward a biographical understanding of a provocative, complex artist-Kirkus Reviews Biographer Hoban (Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art) returns with a lively, concise biography (part of Amazon's Icon series) of realist painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), in which he emerges as a vigorous philanderer, gambler, brawler, and social climber. -Publishers Weekly Art biographer Hoban (Alice Neel, 2010) presents a highly effective, strobe-like brief life of British painter Lucian Freud...A strikingly incisive portrait of an unforgettable rapscallion and provocative artist. -ALA Booklist

Phoebe Hoban is the author of the bestselling books Basquiat and Alice Neel.

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ISBN 13	9781477801185
ISBN 10	1477801189
Titel	Lucian Freud
Autor	Phoebe Hoban
Serie	Icons
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Amazon Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-11-28
Seitenanzahl	196
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