Bare Life: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and others. London artists working from life, 1950-80

By Hermann Arnhold (ed.)

Details

Publisher:

Munich: Hirmer

Year: 2014

Language: English

Pages: 257

ISBN/ISSN: 9783777422541

Contents

Hermann Arnhold, Foreword, pp. 7-9

Andrew Brighton, 'Explaining Pictures to a Living Heir', pp. 12-17

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, '"The Human Image in our Time". The reception of British figurative art in Germany', pp. 18-29

Lee Hallman, '"This Raw Thing". Picturing London, 1945-80', pp. 30-35

Invar-Torre Hollaus, 'The Resonating Space Between Paintings and Viewers. Phenomena of perception in the portraits of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach', pp. 36-46

, 'Setting the Scene. Returning Art to Life', pp. 47-76

, 'Pinning Down Reality. Materiality and Representation', pp. 77-105

Eckhart J. Gillen, 'Why not Paint one's own Life? David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj at the Royal College of Art, c.1960', pp. 106-113

Lynda Morris, '"The Impersonal Eye of the Camera"', pp. 114-120

, 'Addressing Popular Culture and Inventing Personal Styles', pp. 121-140

, 'Studio Thinking', pp. 141-167

Colin Wiggins, '"This is the Family from which we Spring". The National Gallery collection and post-war British painting', pp. 168-173

Catherine Lampert, 'Painting from Life. "A long affair with objects, images, appearances, sensations... the passions"', pp. 174-188

, 'Finding a Likeness that is Truthful', pp. 189-218

, 'Elegies and Enlightenment', pp. 219-241

Number of artworks illustrated

Paintings