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Francis Bacon: Couplings (Hardcover)
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Francis Bacon: Couplings (Hardcover)
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This book highlights a theme that preoccupied Francis Bacon
throughout his career: the relationship between two people, both
physical and psychological. At its heart are two of the most
uninhibited images that Bacon ever painted: Two Figures (1953) and
Two Figures in the Grass (1954). After completing these
interrelated works, Bacon did not return to the subject until 1967,
the year that homosexual acts in private were decriminalized in
England and Wales, when he painted Two Figures on a Couch, also
featured in this volume. In Bacon s paintings, the human presence
is evoked sometimes viscerally, at other times more fleetingly, in
the form of a shadow or a blurred, watchful figure. In certain
instances, the portrayal takes the form of a composite in which
male and female bodily traits are transposed or fused. A number of
the works in Couplings were inspired by Bacon s own fraught
relationships. Francis Bacon: Couplings features an introductory
text by Richard Calvocoressi; a new essay and plate texts by Martin
Harrison; and a never-before-published interview with Bacon by
Richard Francis and Ian Morrison; as well as studio ephemera and
working documents that illuminate Bacon s process.
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