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Freud (Hardcover)
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Freud (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths.
Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the
esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen
and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the
blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also,
beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of
what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the
bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting
parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation
between Lucian Freud's sitting process for portraiture and Sigmund
Freud's psychotherapy sessions is a fascinating element to this
figurative oeuvre. Despite the thickness of the impasto surfaces,
Freud's portraits of subjects as varied as the Queen, Kate Moss,
and an obese job center supervisor penetrate the physicality of the
body with a direct and often disarming insight. The result is as
much a psychological interrogation as it is an uneasy examination
of the relationship between artist and model. This book brings
together some of Freud's most outstanding and unapologetic
portraits, to introduce an artist widely considered one of the
finest masters of the human form. About the series Born back in
1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art
book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art
series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and
oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical
importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with
explanatory captions
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