{"product_id":"francis-bacon-studies-for-a-portrait-by-michael-peppiatt-9780500295854","title":"Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancis Bacon was one of the most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Despite his avowed aim to simplify both himself and his art, he remained a deeply complex person. Bacon was keenly aware of this underlying contradiction, and whether talking or painting, he strove consciously towards absolute clarity and simplicity, calling himself 'simply complicated'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil now, this complexity has rarely come across in the large number of studies on Bacon's life and work. \u003ci\u003eFrancis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e shows a variety of Bacon's many facets, and questions the accepted views on an artist who was adept at defying categorisation. The essays and interviews brought together here span more than half a century. Opening with an interview by the author in 1963, the year he met Bacon, there are also essays written for exhibitions, memoirs, and reflections on Bacon's late work, some published here for the first time. Included are recorded conversations with Bacon in Paris that lasted long into the night, and an overall account of the artist's sources and techniques in his extraordinary London studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an updated edition of \u003ci\u003eFrancis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), published for the first time in a paperback reading book format. It brings this fascinating artist into closer view, revealing the core of his talent: his skill for marrying extreme contradictions and translating them into immediately recognisable images, whose characteristic tension derives from a life lived constantly on the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 14 illustrations, 7 in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362587001068,"sku":"9780500295854","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2779403482366.jpg?v=1772894885","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/francis-bacon-studies-for-a-portrait-by-michael-peppiatt-9780500295854","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}