Bare life : Bacon, Freud, Hockney and others : London artists working from life 1950-80 / edited by LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Hermann Arnhold ; translation, Rachel Michael.
Alternate Title(s):
Bacon, Freud, Hockney and others : London artists working from life 1950-80
Catalog of an exhibition held at LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, August 11, 2014-February 22, 2015.
Contents:
Explaining pictures to a living heir / Andrew Brighton -- "The human image in our time" : the reception of British figurative art in Germany / Tanja Pirsig-Marshall -- "This raw thing" : picturing London, 1945-80 / Lee Hallman -- The resonating space between paintings and viewers : phenomena of perception in the portraits of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach / Invar-Torre Hollaus -- Setting the scene : returning art to life (cat. 1-20) -- Pinning down reality, materiality and representation (cat. 21-41) -- Why not paint one's own life? : David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj at the Royal College of Art, c. 1960 / Eckhart J. Gillen -- "The impersonal eye of the camera" / Lynda Morris -- Addressing popular culture and inventing personal styles (cat. 42-54) -- Studio thinking (cat. 55-81) -- "This is the family from which we spring" : the National Gallery collection and post-war Brtiish painting / Colin Wiggns -- Painting from life : "a long affair with objects, images, appearances, sensations...the passions" / Catherine Lampert -- Finding a likeness that is truthful (cat. 82-102) -- Elegies and enlightenment (cat. 103-117).
Subject Terms:
Art -- England -- London -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Figurative art -- England -- London -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.