In Camera : Francis Bacon : Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting - Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-stills and mass-media imagery. In this new, updated edition of In Camera , Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon''s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist''s stylistic development. Key influences, including the masters Velazquez, Poussin and Rodin, the photographer Eadweard Muybridge and the film director Sergei Eisenstein, are given close consideration. Bacon''s work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists working in the tradition of making use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland and Patrick Heron. With the aid of over 270 illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon''s painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Harrison, Martin Harrison
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780500296509
• ISBN: 978-0-500-29650-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 290 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1320 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting