Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

Author(s): Martin Gayford

General Biography / Memoir

'What can painting do?' This question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more.
Drawing on decades of interviews, Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the Swinging Sixties. It is a story of friendships, experiences and artistic concerns shared between talented individuals who each developed their own singular approach to painting. All passionately believed that even in the age of new media, an ancient form could do fresh and marvellous things.

October 2019


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General Fields

  • : 9780500294703
  • : Thames and Hudson Ltd
  • : Thames and Hudson Ltd
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  • : August 2019
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  • : September 2019
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  • : ACX
  • : 392
  • : 759.209045
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Martin Gayford