London calling
Subtitle: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj
By: Elena Crippa and Catherine Lampert
Contributors: Lampert, Catherine, author; J. Paul Getty Museum; Tate Modern (Gallery)
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781606064849
Subjects: School of London (Group of artists); Exhibitions; English Figurative painting
Description: Between the postwar years and the 1980s in Britain, and in particular in London, a number of figurative painters simultaneously reinvented the way in which life is represented in art. Focusing on the depiction of the human figure, these artists rendered the frailty and vitality of the human condition. 00Offering a fresh account of developments that have since characterized postwar British painting, this catalogue focuses on Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, and Leon Kossoff? artists who worked in close proximity as they were developing new forms of realism. If for many years their efforts seemed to clash with dominant tendencies, reassessment in recent decades has afforded their work a central position in a richer and more complex understanding of postwar British art and culture.
Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibition London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from July 26 to November 13, 2016. The presentation of this exhibition is a collaboration between the Tate and the J. Paul Getty Museum."--ECIP galley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-135) and index.
Table of contents: title: The human condition: six modern painters reinvent reality / Elena Crippa; title: An intensification of reality / Catherine Lampert.