Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World
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
49-02 Head III, 1949; p. 85
49-04 Head V, 1949; p. 85
49-07 Head VI, 1949; pp. 46, 85, 135, 159; ill. No. 45, p. 84
49-09 Study for a Portrait, 1949; p. 159
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
50-05 'Study after Velázquez', 1950; pp. 85-87
50-06 Painting, 1950; p. 124
51-03 Study for Nude, 1951; p. 135
51-05 Pope I, 1951; pp. 87, 94; ill. No. 47, p. 87, No. 81, p. 152
51-06 Pope II, 1951; p. 87
51-07D Pope III, 1951; p. 87
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
54-05 Man in Blue I, 1954; pp. 46, 87
54-06 Man in Blue II, 1954; pp. 46, 87
54-07 Man in Blue III, 1954; pp. 46, 87
54-08 Man in Blue IV, 1954; pp. 46, 87; ill. No. 18, p. 46
54-09 Man in Blue V, 1954; pp. 46, 87
54-10 Man in Blue VI, 1954; pp. 46, 87
54-14 Figure with Meat, 1954; p. 94
56-07 Man Carrying a Child, 1956; p. 159
60-05 Pope No. 2, 1960; p. 94
61-08 Study for a Pope I, 1961; pp. 87-89
61-09 Study for a Pope II, 1961; pp. 87-89
61-10 Study for a Pope III, 1961; pp. 87-89; ill. No. 48, p. 88