Lucian Freud Paintings

by Robert Hughes

Book Overview

It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud--once dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism"--has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist possesses his ability to paint the texture and thinness of skin over flesh, and his distinctive portraits have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500275351
• ISBN13: 9780500275351
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.8" x 10.9"