Modernists & mavericks : Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London painters / Martin Gayford.

By: Gayford, Martin, 1952- [author.]Contributor(s): Gayford, Martin [author. ]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2019Manufacturer: United Kingdom : CPI (UK) Ltd. Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Thames & Hudson LtdDescription: 352 pages : illustrations ; 21cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500294703 (paperback)Subject(s): Painting, English, -- England -- London -- 20th century | London (England) -- Fiction | London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryLOC classification: ND470 .G39 2019Subject: ‘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.--backover. https://www.amazon.com/Modernists-Mavericks-Hockney-London-Painters/dp/0500294704

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index (pages 346-352).

‘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.--backover.

https://www.amazon.com/Modernists-Mavericks-Hockney-London-Painters/dp/0500294704