London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj

by Elena Crippa and Catherine Lampert

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Between the postwar years and the 1980s in Britain, and in particular in London, a number of figurative painters simultaneously reinvented the way in which life is represented in art. Focusing on the depiction of the human figure, these artists rendered the frailty and vitality of the human condition.

Offering a fresh account of developments that have since characterized postwar British painting, this catalogue focuses on Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, and Leon Kossoff-- artists who worked in close proximity as they were developing new forms of realism. If for many years...Read more
  • ISBN10 1606064843
  • ISBN13 9781606064849
  • Publish Date 26 July 2016
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Getty Trust Publications
  • Imprint Getty Publications
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 136
  • Language English