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Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World

By Rina Arya
Description

Rina Arya explains in this book how the artist redeployed religious iconography to convey an experience of the human condition of animalism and mortality.

Details
Publisher:
Farnham: Lund Humphries
Year:  2012
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN/ISSN: 9781848220447
Paintings
33-01 Crucifixion, 1933; pp. 39, 59, 63, 159; ill. No. 30, p. 63
33-02 After Picasso, 'La Danse', 1933; pp. 39, 59, 63; ill. p. 6, No. 31, p. 64 (titled 'Crucifixion')
33-03 The Crucifixion, 1933; pp. 39, 59, 63; ill. No. 32, p. 65
44-01 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944; pp. 27, 31, 34, 39, 52, 56, 59, 66-70, 73, 101, 110, 116, 117, 120, 126, 137, 138, 160; ill. No. 4, p. 16 (centre panel, detail), No. 10, pp. 28-29
46-03 Painting 1946, 1946; p. 133; ill. No. 73, p. 134
48-01 Head I, 1948; pp. 79, 85, 135; ill. No. 40, p. 78
49-01 Head II, 1949; pp. 55, 85
49-07 Head VI, 1949; pp. 46, 85, 135, 159; ill. No. 45, p. 84
50-02 Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1950; pp. 39, 59, 70-73, 119, 126, 161; ill. No. 35, p. 71
50-04 Study after Velázquez, 1950; pp. 85-87, 162; ill. No. 46, p. 86
51-05 Pope I, 1951; pp. 87, 94; ill. No. 47, p. 87, No. 81, p. 152
52-03 Dog, 1952; p. 135
53-01 Study of a Nude, 1952 - 1953; p. 124; ill. No. 67, p. 125
53-02 Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953; pp. 39-40, 44, 87, 91, 92-96, 162; ill. No. 54, p. 93
53-07 Study for Portrait I, 1953; pp. 87, 89, 162; ill. No. 49, p. 89
53-14 Study for Portrait VIII, 1953; p. 87, 89; ill. No. 50, p. 89
53-17 Study of a Baboon, 1953; p. 136; ill. No. 75, p. 136
53-24 Two Figures, 1953; pp. 137, 148-149; ill. No. 76, p. 139
54-01 Two Figures in the Grass, 1954; pp. 52, 137, 148; ill. No. 23, p. 53
54-08 Man in Blue IV, 1954; pp. 46, 87; ill. No. 18, p. 46
61-10 Study for a Pope III, 1961; pp. 87-89; ill. No. 48, p. 88