Bare Life: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and others. London artists working from life, 1950-80

By Hermann Arnhold (ed.)

Details

Publisher:

Munich: Hirmer

Year: 2014

Language: English

Pages: 257

ISBN/ISSN: 9783777422541

Contents

Hermann Arnhold, Foreword, pp. 7-9

Andrew Brighton, 'Explaining Pictures to a Living Heir', pp. 12-17

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, '"The Human Image in our Time". The reception of British figurative art in Germany', pp. 18-29

Lee Hallman, '"This Raw Thing". Picturing London, 1945-80', pp. 30-35

Invar-Torre Hollaus, 'The Resonating Space Between Paintings and Viewers. Phenomena of perception in the portraits of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach', pp. 36-46

, 'Setting the Scene. Returning Art to Life', pp. 47-76

, 'Pinning Down Reality. Materiality and Representation', pp. 77-105

Eckhart J. Gillen, 'Why not Paint one's own Life? David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj at the Royal College of Art, c.1960', pp. 106-113

Lynda Morris, '"The Impersonal Eye of the Camera"', pp. 114-120

, 'Addressing Popular Culture and Inventing Personal Styles', pp. 121-140

, 'Studio Thinking', pp. 141-167

Colin Wiggins, '"This is the Family from which we Spring". The National Gallery collection and post-war British painting', pp. 168-173

Catherine Lampert, 'Painting from Life. "A long affair with objects, images, appearances, sensations... the passions"', pp. 174-188

, 'Finding a Likeness that is Truthful', pp. 189-218

, 'Elegies and Enlightenment', pp. 219-241

Number of artworks illustrated

Paintings

44-01 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944; p. 243

49-05 Head, 1949; ill. No. 17, unpaged; p. 74 (titled 'Head V')

51-04 Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1951; pp. 37, 44, 243 (titled 'Lucian Freud')

55-05 Small Study for Portrait, 1955; pp. 38, 73; ill. No 16, unpaged

55-08 Chimpanzee, 1955; pp. 22, 99; ill. No 21, unpaged

57-08 Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin, 1957; pp. 38, 99; ill. No 22, unpaged

57-22 Study for Portrait, 1957; pp. 38, 99, 175; ill. No 23, unpaged (titled 'Study for a Portrait (Pope)')

58-06 Lying Figure, 1958; pp. 22, 38-39, 100; ill. No. 1, p. 38; No. 24, unpaged, p.75

59-02 Lying Figure, 1959; p. 27

59-03 Two Figures in a Room, 1959; p. 27

59-04 Seated Figure on a Couch, 1959; p. 27 (titled 'Crouching Figure')

59-06 Lying Figure, 1959; p. 22 (titled 'Lying Figure No. 3')

60-19 Nude, 1960; p. 22 (titled 'Nude Medium')

63-04 Study for Self-Portrait, 1963; pp. 39, 182, 213; ill. No. 2, p. 39; No. 90, unpaged

63-13 Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963; p. 22

65-01 Crucifixion, 1965; p. 23

66-06 Study of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966; pp. 40, 211; ill. No 82, unpaged

67-14 Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho, 1967; pp. 40, 217; ill. No 101, unpaged

75-07 Three Figures and Portrait, 1975; pp. 169, 240; ill. No 117, unpaged