Bacon (German Edition)

Ficacci, Luigi

Arts & Photography

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Francis Bacon: 1909-1992, Deep Beneath the Surfaces of Things

Deep beneath the surfaces of things Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos that lies within and struggling with all that is inexplicable. Erotic and grotesquely beautiful is the work of this legendary painter whose haunting, distorted figures have inspired entire generations of painters who seek to emulate his highly original style. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series features:<ul>
<li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul>

Francis Bacon: 1909-1992

History & Criticism

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"An artistic homage to a genius." Frankfurter Rundschau, Franckfurt a.M.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

If you found our volume Piranesi: The Complete Etchings overwhelming in its scope and magnitude, you'll appreciate this new, abbreviated version. Faithfully summarizing his entire oeuvre, this is a wonderful introduction to the great architectural master etcher. Includes 168 of his best plates.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Selected Etchings

Individual Artists

Piranesi is arguably one of the greatest artists of architecture - of spaces both real and imagined. From the Veduti di Roma to the Carceri this is a collection of the work of the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century.

Piranesi: The Complete Etchings

Battista, Giovanni

Subliminal creatures: Dreamworlds beneath the surface Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos that lies within and struggling with all that is inexplicable. Erotic and grotesquely beautiful is the work of this legendary painter whose haunting, distorted figures have inspired entire generations of painters who seek to emulate his highly original style. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:
<ul>
<li>a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance</li> <li>a concise biography</li> <li>approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul>

Francis Bacon: 1909-1992: Deep Beneath the Surfaces of Things

Piranesi’s fantastic worlds: The great 18th century architectural artist and master engraver “Piranesi was as savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo, and exuberant as Rubens… he has imagined scenes that would startle geometry and exhaust the Indies to realize.” —Horace Walpole One of the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is best known for his terrifyingly original series of etchings of labyrinthine and megalomaniac prisons, Carceri d’Invenzione. In his own day, he was most celebrated for his Vedute, 137 etchings of ancient and modern Rome; so renowned were these startling and dramatic chiaroscuro images, imbued with Piranesi’s romantic feeling for archaeological ruins, that they formed the mental picture of Rome for generations after. Indeed, Piranesi could be said to have shaped a whole strain of contemporary architecture, as well as the wider visualization of antiquity itself. In our time, he has had a direct influence on writers such as Borges and Kafka and on filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Greenaway. Anyone who contemplates Piranesi’s etchings will confront the existential nightmare of human existence and its infinite mysteries. Text in English, French, and German

Piranesi Giovanni Battista: The Complete Etchings/ Gesamtkatalog Der Radierungen/ Catalogue Raisonne Des Eaux-fortes

The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city’s archaeological ruins with drama and romance and became favorite souvenirs for the Grand Tourists who traveled Italy in pursuit of classical culture and education.
Today, Piranesi is renowned not just for shaping the European imagination of Rome, but also for his elaborate series of fanciful prisons, Carceri, which have influenced generations of creatives since, from the Surrealists to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.
Loosely based on contemporary stage sets rather than the actual dingy dungeons of Piranesi’s day, these intricate images defy architectural reality to play instead with perspective, lighting, and scale. Staircases exist on two planes simultaneously; vast, vaulted ceilings seem to soar up to the heavens; interior and exterior distinctions collapse. With a low viewpoint and small, fragile figures, the prison scenes become monstrous megacities of incarceration, celebrated to this day as masterworks of existentialist drama.

Piranesi: The Complete Etchings/Gesamtkatalog der Radierungen/Catalogue raisonne des eaux-fortes

Piranesi. the Complete Etchings

Largement autodidacte en tant qu'artiste, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) développa une capacité unique à transformer l'intériorité et les élans inconscients en formes figuratives dans des compositions intenses et confinées. Parvenu à une notoriété certaine après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Bacon prit le corps humain comme sujet de prédilection, mais un sujet ravagé, déformé et démembré, traversé par des émotions intenses sous lesquelles il se tord et gémit de douleur. Ces membres qui fouettent l'air désespérément, ces vides béants et ces excroissances tumorales forment des portraits poignants, souvent grotesques qui sont autant des réflexions sur les épreuves et les traumatismes de la condition humaine que des études de caractère. Ces formes envoûtantes et terrifiantes furent aussi parmi les premières de l'histoire de l'art à représenter des thèmes ouvertement homosexuels. Ce livre est une introduction à l'oeuvre érotique, déstabilisant et inoubliable de Bacon, un corpus transformateur souvent imité, beaucoup analysé, mais surtout ressenti. À propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: une chronologique détaillée de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l'artiste qui rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique une biographie concise une centaine d'illustrations couleur accompagnées de légendes explicatives

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