TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gayford,Martin
AU  - Gayford,Martin
TI  - Modernists & mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London painters 
SN  - 9780500294703
AV  - ND470 .G39 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Painting, English,
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - 20th century
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index (pages 346-352).
N2  - ‘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.
ER  -