Artists' Lives
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-29796-4 (ISBN)
Michael Peppiatt has been studying, meeting and writing about artists for almost sixty years. In this brilliant selection of his biographical writing, he introduces us to some of the best-known artists of the modern age, from Vincent van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
We follow the writer into the studios of some of these individuals, observing their creative process at close quarters, and gaining insight into the way their personal histories have shaped and directed their work, bringing both the art and its maker alive.
Peppiatt meets an elderly but spirited Sonia Delaunay in Paris to hear her revive long-forgotten worlds; visits Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies, ‘the alchemist’, and joins him on late-night walks around Barcelona; interviews poet Jacques Dupin, in his pyjamas, on his memories of Giacometti; makes the life-changing acquaintance of Bacon in the bars and clubs of Soho; and gives us a considered opinion on Picasso’s trousers.
These essays are essential reading for anyone wanting to find out more about the lives of some of the great creative figures of modern times, from a writer who is not only an authority on art, but also one of the liveliest and most entertaining observers of artists and their worlds.
Michael Peppiatt is a well-known writer and curator, who began his career as an art critic in London and Paris in the 1960s. Described by the Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, his previous books include Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma and Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait. He is guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ (London, 2022).
Introduction
1. Vincent van Gogh: Between Shadows and the Sun
2. Aristide Maillol and the Red Count
3. The Darker Side of Pierre Bonnard
4. Aubrey Beardsley’s Brief Brilliance
5. Picasso’s Trousers
6. Joan Miró: A Painter Among Poets
7. Talking to Sonia Delaunay
8. Christian Schad’s Portraits of the 1920s
9. A Tribute to Dora Maar
10. Alice Bellony Rewald: Portrait of a Muse
11. John Richardson, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
12. Henri Michaux Painter-Poet
13. Jean Dubuffet’s War on Culture
14. From Breton to Beckett: The Writers in Giacometti’s Life
15. Remembering Alberto Giacometti. An Interview with Jacques Dupin
16. A Broken Dream of Balthus
17. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
18. Looking Back at Nicolas de Staël
19. Zoran Music: Art after Dachau
20. Dado and the Atrocity of Everyday Life
21. In memoriam: Antoni Tàpies
22. The Paradox of Francis Bacon
23. The Legacy of Genius: Van Gogh and Bacon
24. Bacon/Giacometti: Parallel Visions of a Terrible Truth
25. Lucian Freud’s Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau)
26. Raymond Mason Confronts the Torrent of Life
27. R. B. Kitaj: Paintings as Novels
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 27 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 340 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| ISBN-10 | 0-500-29796-7 / 0500297967 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-500-29796-4 / 9780500297964 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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