Francis Bacon again.
The contemporary workshop| N° d'inventaire | 25756 |
| Format | 11.5 x 16 |
| Détails | 224 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Strasbourg, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782850350498 |
"Studiolo" Collection.
We know of the series of interviews that Francis Bacon gave to David Sylvester between 1962 and 1986. After the artist's death in 1992, the critic, who, by his own account, had never found the necessary distance in almost fifty years to devote a major critical study to his friend, felt "the floodgates open": the result was this Francis Bacon again , in which, in a long retrospective look that also takes in raw canvases destroyed and rediscovered posthumously, Sylvester tests and synthesizes almost sixty years of observations.
"Journey", "Views": the titles of the first two and main parts of the work name the dual method of a writer concerned only with opening the work to the spectator by a chronological journey and thematic probes. Even in the latter, where Sylvester delivers the fruit of his own intuitions, there is no effusion of style, nor concession to the spirit of system, but remarks, tending towards the fragment or the aphorism, which throw as many bridges towards the universe of Bacon thanks to a privileged access to the artist, a tireless gift of observation and, above all, a rare humility, rare scruples of method.
The third and fourth sections, offering "outtakes" from the Entretiens and biographical notes respectively , the book, with its plural approaches, is a series of encounters with the work, offered to any viewer wishing to introduce themselves to it without major interpretive bias or to purify their gaze of commentary. For, as Sylvester notes: "Nothing in these paintings is more eloquent than the painting itself."
"Studiolo" Collection.
We know of the series of interviews that Francis Bacon gave to David Sylvester between 1962 and 1986. After the artist's death in 1992, the critic, who, by his own account, had never found the necessary distance in almost fifty years to devote a major critical study to his friend, felt "the floodgates open": the result was this Francis Bacon again , in which, in a long retrospective look that also takes in raw canvases destroyed and rediscovered posthumously, Sylvester tests and synthesizes almost sixty years of observations.
"Journey", "Views": the titles of the first two and main parts of the work name the dual method of a writer concerned only with opening the work to the spectator by a chronological journey and thematic probes. Even in the latter, where Sylvester delivers the fruit of his own intuitions, there is no effusion of style, nor concession to the spirit of system, but remarks, tending towards the fragment or the aphorism, which throw as many bridges towards the universe of Bacon thanks to a privileged access to the artist, a tireless gift of observation and, above all, a rare humility, rare scruples of method.
The third and fourth sections, offering "outtakes" from the Entretiens and biographical notes respectively , the book, with its plural approaches, is a series of encounters with the work, offered to any viewer wishing to introduce themselves to it without major interpretive bias or to purify their gaze of commentary. For, as Sylvester notes: "Nothing in these paintings is more eloquent than the painting itself."