Bacon

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Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustroph obic compositions. Emerging into notoriety in the period following World War II, Bacon took the human body as his nominal subject, but a subject ravaged, distorted, and dismembered so as to writhe with intense emotional content. With flailing limbs, hollow voids, and tumurous growths, his gripping, often grotesque, portraits are as much reflections on the trials and the traumas of the human condition as they are character studies. Format: Hardcover Published: Germany, 2021 Publisher: Taschen GmbH Pages: 96 Language: English ISBN 13: 9783836559690 ISBN 10: 3836559692 Show more