| Description |
352 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-345) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Young Lucian: art in wartime London -- 2. Pope Francis -- 3. Euston Road in Camberwell -- 4. Spirit in the mass: the Borough Polytechnic -- 5. Girl with roses -- 6. Leaping into the void -- 7 Life into art: Bacon and Freud in the 1950s -- 8. Two climbers roped together -- 9. What makes the modern home so different? -- 10. An arena in which to act -- 11. The situation in London, 1960 -- 12. The artist thinks: Hockney and his contemporaries -- 13. The grin without the cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s -- 14. American connections -- 15. Mysterious conventionality -- 16. Portrait surrounded by artistic devices -- 17. Shimmering and dissolving -- 18. The non-existence of action -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis 1909-1992. (DE-588)11850570X
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Freud, Lucian 1922-2011. (DE-588)119231433
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Hockney, David 1937- (DE-588)118551760
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Painting, English -- England -- London -- 20th century.
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London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Painting, English. (OCoLC)fst01050797
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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Kunstbetrieb. (DE-588)4208853-7
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London. (DE-588)4074335-4
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Art and Design.
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Art and Design.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Title |
Modernists and mavericks |
| ISBN |
9780500239773 (hardback) |
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0500239770 (hardback) |
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