Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters

by Martin Gayford

Book Overview

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj's proposal, made in 1976, that there was a "substantial School of London" was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley.

Modernists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500239770
• ISBN13: 9780500239773
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"