Francis Bacon in Your Blood

Francis Bacon in Your Blood

by Michael Peppiatt
Francis Bacon in Your Blood

Francis Bacon in Your Blood

by Michael Peppiatt

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Overview

In June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famous painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist's world; Bacon, considered by many to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," proved himself a devoted friend and father figure, even amidst the drinking and gambling.

Though Peppiatt would later write perhaps the definitive biography of Bacon, his sharply drawn memoir has a different vigor, revealing the artist at his most intimate and indiscreet, and his London and Paris milieus in all their seediness and splendor. Bacon is felt with immediacy, as Peppiatt draws from contemporary diaries and records of their time together, giving us the story of a friendship, and a new perspective on an artist of enduring fascination.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632863447
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 12/01/2015
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 852,617
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Peppiatt studied at the University of Cambridge, where he began his career and an art writer by writing exhibition reviews for the Observer. In an international career as a writer and curator, he has curated numerous exhibitions of Francis Bacon's and other artists' work and been published in Le Monde, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Art News and Art International, which he bought and relaunched in 1985. In 2005, he was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Cambridge for his published work in the field of twentieth-century art. He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2010 he joined the international board of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part 1 1963-1966

1 Absolute Beginner 3

2 Under the Spell 21

3 Bacon's Boswell 38

4 Mischief in Morocco 60

5 Conversations at Night 77

Part 2 1966-1976

6 Exile and Revolution 103

7 'Poor George' 133

8 A Death Foreshadowed 161

9 Consumed by Guilt 191

10 The Inspiration of Pain 218

Part 3 1976-1992

11 'Only Francis Bacon is More Wonderful than You' 251

12 Primal Cries 283

13 Whose Turn is it Now? 316

14 An Ancient Simplicity 347

Epilogue 385

Acknowledgements 393

Index 395

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