Author: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher: London : Cassell
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 210
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Published: 1838
Total Pages: 622
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781912520558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century. A major exhibition of his paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2020 explores the role of animals in his work - not least the human animal. Having often painted dogs and horses, in 1969 Bacon first depicted bullfights. In this powerful series of works, the interaction between man and beast is dangerous and cruel, but also disturbingly intimate. Both are contorted in their anguished struggle and the erotic lurks not far away: "Bullfighting is like boxing," Bacon once said. "A marvellous aperitif to sex." 0Twenty-two years later, a lone bull was to be the subject of his final painting. In this fascinating publication - a significant addition to the literature on Bacon - expert authors discuss Bacon's approach to animals and identify his varied sources of inspiration, which included surrealist literature and the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. They contend that, by depicting animals in states of vulnerability, anger and unease, Bacon sought to delve into the human condition.00Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (22.01-12.04.2021).
Author: George Walter Thornbury
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 80
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Constance-Anne Parker
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780903696333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Holger Hoock
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780191556104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicization of art during the American and French Revolutions. By demonstrating how the Academy shaped the notions of an English and British school of art and influenced the emergence of the British cultural state, he illuminates the politics of national culture and the character of British public life in an age of war, revolution, and reform.