Francis Bacon : books and painting /

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon's works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illu...

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Bibliographic Details
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
Subjects:	Bacon, Francis, > 1909-1992 > Exhibitions. Art and literature > Exhibitions. Bacon, Francis, > 1909-1992. Art and literature. Exhibition catalogs.

Table of Contents:

Bacon spelled out / Didier Ottinger
Paintings
Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Nietzche, Aeschylus, Michel Leiris
Paintings
Watching death at work: the iconography of Francis Bacon's late work / Chris Stephens
Gilles Deleuze 'over Francis Bacon's shoulder' / Miguel Egaña
Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare / Michael Peppiatt
Textual transgressions: Francis Bacon's French legacy / Catherine Howe
Francis Bacon's libraries
Chronology / Anna Hiddleston-Galloni
List of works in the exhibition.