Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud - Couverture souple

Gayford, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500295182 ISBN 13 : 9780500295182

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Man with a Blue Scarf, 9780500295182

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud; Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters; A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen and Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy, both with David Hockney; Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now, with Antony Gormley; Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud, 1939-1954, with David Dawson; Venice: City of Pictures; and How Painting Happens (and why it matters).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of his time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist's studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master--both technical and subtly psychological. From Man with a Blue Scarf emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation in restaurants, taxis, and his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter who was a friend and contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and Francis Bacon, as well as writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. Now for the first time as a compact paperback, this book is illustrated with works by Lucian Freud, telling photographs of Freud in his studio, and images by great artists of the past, such as Vincent van Gogh and Titian, who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500295182
• ISBN 13: 9780500295182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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