Modernists & mavericks
Subtitle: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London painters
By: Martin Gayford
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780500239773
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Intellectual life; English Painting
Other titles: Modernists and mavericks
Description: The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a 'substantial School of London' was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- 1.; title: Young Lucian: art in wartime London -- -- 2.; title: Pope Francis -- -- 3.; title: Euston Road in Camberwell -- -- 4.; title: Spirit in the mass: the Borough Polytechnic -- -- 5.; title: Girl with roses -- -- 6.; title: Leaping into the void -- -- 7; title: Life into art: Bacon and Freud in the 1950s -- -- 8.; title: Two climbers roped together -- -- 9.; title: What makes the modern home so different? -- -- 10.; title: An arena in which to act -- -- 11.; title: The situation in London, 1960 -- -- 12.; title: The artist thinks: Hockney and his contemporaries -- -- 13.; title: The grin without the cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s -- -- 14.; title: American connections -- -- 15.; title: Mysterious conventionality -- -- 16.; title: Portrait surrounded by artistic devices -- -- 17.; title: Shimmering and dissolving -- -- 18.; title: The non-existence of action ---- Epilogue.