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.

Steve Tobin is best known for his bronze-cast root sculptures. He created what would become the first memorial for 9/11, Trinity Roots. Tobin's works are represented in collections including the American Center and Finair, Helsinki; the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; King Faisal's Palace, Saudi Arabia; the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Retretti Museum, Punkaharju, Finland; and The White House, Washington, D.C The artist currently works and resides in Bucks County, PA.
David Houston is a curator and art historian. He was the Director of Curatorial at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and is now the Director of the Bo Bartlett Center, College for the Arts, Columbus State University, Georgia.
Phoebe Hoban is a New York-based journalist. From 1985 to the present, she has covered culture and the arts for publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The New York Observer. Phoebe Hoban's books include the biographies Basquiat (a New York Times notable book of the year); Alice Neel and Lucian Freud

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ISBN 13	9780544114593
ISBN 10	0544114590
Title	Lucian Freud
Author	Phoebe Hoban
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	New Harvest
Year published	2014-04-15
Number of pages	174
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