Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Features revealing interviews with Francis Bacon that was conducted over a period of 25 years by a distinguished art critic. In this book, Bacon considers the problems of realism, sheds new light on aspects of his life, talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works.

'A classic' - Guardian
'Compelling.. a profound, lucid text, precisely illustrated' - Sunday Times
'When it comes to illuminating the work of the artist, this short, nourishing book is hard to beat' - Observer
'May well have as great an influence on painting during the last quarter of the [20th] century as the critical writings of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot had on poetry during the 1920s and 1930s' - Stephen Spender
'Endlessly fascinating' - The Spectator
'The most celebrated documentation of the painter' - Sunday Telegraph
'An intriguing book capable of shedding light on the life of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century ' - Dazed

David Sylvester CBE (1924–2001) was a prominent writer, art critic and curator, and a leading authority on René Magritte, Henry Moore and, in particular, Francis Bacon. He first wrote about Bacon’s work in the late 1940s, and the pair soon became close friends. Over the next forty years, he was Bacon’s Boswell, interpreter, confidant, occasional model and briefly agent. He curated or co-curated numerous major exhibitions at museums around the world, including one-man shows of Picasso, Miró, Magritte, Moore, Giacometti and Bacon. His published books include Interviews with Francis Bacon, Looking Back at Francis Bacon and the five-volume Magritte catalogue raisonné.

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ISBN 13	9780500292532
ISBN 10	0500292531
Title	Interviews with Francis Bacon
Author	David Sylvester
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published	2016-09-29
Number of pages	232
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