Bare Life: From Bacon to Hockney - London Artists Painting from Life, 1950-80

by Catherine Lampert and Tanja Pirsig-Marshall

In the mid-twentieth century, a pioneering group of painters began pursuing new directions in figurative art, investing representations of the human body with unprecedented expressiveness and depth. Among these painters who sought to more accurately capture the truth of human existence were the "School of London" artists, including Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Leon Kossoff, and Lucian Freud, but the tradition also extended beyond...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3777422541
• ISBN13: 9783777422541
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 12.0"