• Phaidon Focus is a brand new series that offers accessible, up-to-date, authoritative, enjoyable and thought-provoking books on internationally renowned modern masters • Written by experts in their field, each of these lively and beautifully illustrated books, covers the full span of the artist’s work, exploring its origins, development, style and themes • Stimulating and a pleasure to read, each book consists of a chronological essay accompanied by ‘Focus’ sections that delve into specific themes and important groups of work, and ends with a short chronology and a bibliography • These compact and affordable hardback books are the perfect introductions to the artists, essential reading for students and rewarding for anyone curious about art • The art of Francis Bacon (1909–1992) epitomizes the angst at the heart of the modern human condition. His dramatic images of screaming figures and distorted anatomies are painted with a richly gestural technique, alluding to such Old Masters as Titian, Velázquez and Rembrandt. Displaying repressed and raw emotion, his body of work includes portraits of Lucian Freud and John Deakin.weiterlesen