书名：Modernists & Mavericks:Bacon Freud Hockney and the London Painters/现代主义者与特立独行者：培根 弗洛伊德 霍克尼与伦敦画家
定价：280.0
ISBN：9780500239773
作者：Martin Gayford
版次：1
出版时间：2018-04

内容提要：

书名：Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters (hb)/现代主义者与特立独行者：培根、弗洛伊德、霍克尼与伦敦画家（精装版）

作者：Martin Gayford

出版：Thames & Hudson，2018

ISBN：9780500239773

装帧：精装，352页

语种：英文

开本：15.3×23.4cm

从第二次世界大战到20世纪70年代，伦敦绘画艺术的发展历程，是诸多著名艺术家之间相互交织的友谊、共同经历与艺术追求的故事，这些艺术家包括弗朗西斯·培根、卢西恩·弗洛伊德、弗兰克·奥尔巴赫、大卫·霍克尼、布里奇特·赖利、吉莉安·艾尔斯、弗兰克·鲍林和霍华德·霍奇金。

艺术评论家马丁·盖福德借鉴大量一手访谈资料（其中许多此前未曾发表），采访了重要的见证者与参与者，梳理出连接这些个体生命的脉络，并展示了在20世纪40年代和50年代的苏荷区波希米亚风格以及60年代 “摇摆伦敦” 的背景下，绘画艺术如何在伦敦蓬勃发展。他揭示了战后画家们如何受到大卫·邦伯格和威廉·科尔德斯特里姆等不同老师的影响，如何了解杰克逊·波洛克等同辈艺术家的作品，以及从皮耶罗·德拉·弗朗切斯卡到毕加索和马蒂斯的西方艺术传统，他们坚信这种古老的艺术媒介，与摄影及其他媒介不同，能够创造出新颖奇妙的作品。他们提出 “绘画能做什么？” 这个问题，并以各自不同但同样充满激情的方式探索绘画的可能性。 

The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s is the story of interlinking friendships, shared experiences and artistic concerns among a number of acclaimed artists, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling and Howard Hodgkin.

Drawing on extensive first-hand interviews, many previously unpublished, with important witnesses and participants, the art critic Martin Gayford teases out the thread connecting these individual lives, and demonstrates how painting thrived in London against the backdrop of Soho bohemia in the 1940s and 1950s and ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s. He shows how, influenced by such different teachers as David Bomberg and William Coldstream, and aware of the work of contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock as well as the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were allied in their confidence that this ancient medium, in opposition to photography and other media, could do fresh and marvellous things. They asked the question ‘what can painting do?’ and explored in their diverse ways, but with equal passion, the possibilities of paint.