Francis Bacon in Your Blood

Deeply intimate memoir-biography of the most important artist of the twentieth century

About the author

Michael Peppiatt graduated from Cambridge, where he edited Cambridge Opinion and wrote exhibition reviews for the Observer. In an international career spent between London, Paris and New York, Peppiatt has written regularly for Le Monde, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Art News and Art International magazine, which he re-launched as its new publisher and editor from Paris in 1985. He is the author of over twenty books including the definitive Bacon biography, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma (revised edition 2008). In 2005 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Cambridge for his work in the field of twentieth-century art. Peppiatt has also curated numerous exhibitions worldwide, and he is currently at work on a major retrospective contrasting the achievements of the two modern artists he most admires: Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.

Report

This fine portrait of the artist is both gossipy and poignant . [and] one of the best art books I have read, by turns atmospheric and waspishly gossipy but also profound and poignant. Michael Prodger The Times 20150829

Product details

• Authors: Michael Peppiatt, Peppiatt Michael
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781408856307
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-5630-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Paperbacks; Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment, Paintings and painting