A Whitney Museum of American Art Book Since 1932, the Whitney Museum's Biennial Exhibitions have counted among the milestones in the history of American art and have played a leading role in presenting vanguard developments in art to the general public. Countless prominent artists have made their museum debut at these diverse surveys of painting, sculpture, works on paper, film and video, performance, and installation. 
For the eagerly awaited first Biennial of the new millennium, the Whitney has assembled a versatile team of curators from around the nation to select and invite the participating artists. Once again, the Whitney will help to establish a critical perspective on the latest creative achievements by American artists. 
250 illustrations, 150 in full color, 9 x 10 1/2" 
MAXWELL L. ANDERSON is director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MICHAEL G. AUPING is chief curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; VALERIE CASSEL is director of the Visiting Artists Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; HUGH DAVIES is director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; JANE FARVER is director of the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ANDREA MILLER-KELLER is an independent curator based in Hartford, Connecticut; and LAWRENCE R. RINDER is director, CCAC Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco and Oakland. 
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkMar. 23-June 4, 2000

Whitney Biennial: 2000 Exhibition

Arts & Photography

Whitney Museum of American Art

Farver, Jane

Cassel, Valerie

Davies, Hugh M.

Auping, Michael G.

Miller-Keller, Andrea

Rinder, Lawrence R.

Anderson, Maxwell Lincoln

History & Criticism

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of the foremost artists of the 20th century, is known for his expressive figurative paintings. Perhaps Bacon's most famous image - the so-called "screaming pope" in Study after Vel zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) - became the touchstone for the longest series of paintings in his career, the Papal Portraits of 1953. In 1953 "haunted and obsessed by the image...by its perfection", Bacon sought to reinvent Vel zquez's 17th-century Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) in the paintings that are the focus of this book. Francis Bacon replaced the grand, official state portrait with an intimate, spontaneous "candid camera" glimpse behind the well-ordered exterior. While the Spanish master Vel zquez portayed the pope ex cathedra, Bacon captured him in camera, as if behind a closed door or through a one-way mirror. This series of eight papal portraits, painted during a period of just a few weeks in the summer of 1953, was brought together for the first time by noted Bacon scholar Hugh M. Davies for a 1999 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, along with several other works from the same period, including Sphinx I and two Study after Vel zquez paintings from 1950. This book includes an essay by Davies, discussing the artist's influences and sources of imagery for the series, and a previously unpublished interview that Davies conducted with Bacon in 1973.

Francis Bacon

BACON, FRANCIS

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

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Baza, Larry T.

Museum of Contemporary Art San

Contributors include Hugh M. Davies, Toby Kamps, Ralph Rugoff.

Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art

Davies, Hugh

Kamps, Toby

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953 explores the largest series of paintings made by the British artist Francis Bacon. For the first time, this book collects all eight Study for Portrait paintings, the famous "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" from 1953 and several other works from the period. An essay by Hugh M. Davies, who has written extensively about Bacon, discusses his influences and sources of imagery for this body of work. Also included is a previously unpublished interview with Bacon that Davies conducted more than 25 years ago. Rounded out with a chronology and selected bibliography, Papal Portraits is a major document for the study of this vital and influential twentieth-century master.

Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953 (MUSEUM OF CONTE)

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