Francis Bacon: Incunabula

by Rebecca Daniels and Martin Harrison

In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject--the human body--and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. Instead he appropriated images from the mass media that he manipulated into his "studies." This book presents over 200 of these documents, about which Bacon was secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process.

Culled from thousands of pieces of original material found in his studio,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050009344X
• ISBN13: 9780500093443
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 12.0"