Bacon [Hardcover]

Largely self-taught as an artist,Francis Bacon (19091992)developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions.

Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subjectravaged, distorted, and dismemberedso as to writhe withintense emotional content.With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, hisgripping, often grotesque, portraitsare as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. These haunting forms were also among the first in art history to depictovertly homosexual themes.

BAA concise and gripping encounter with Francis Bacon, one of the most individual, powerful, and disturbing painters of the 20th century. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon developed a unique figurative form, distorted, dismembered, and writhing with intense emotional content.