题 目：Lucian Freud / 卢西安·弗洛伊德

作 者：Lawrence Gowing

出 版：Thames & Hudson，2026

装 帧：精装，216页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：16.2*23.8*2.8 cm

劳伦斯·高英所著的《卢西安·弗洛伊德》于1982年首次出版，是对二十世纪最杰出艺术家之一的亲密记述。这本书既是一个关键性的叙事，一部隐秘的自传，也是一次对通过绘画进行思考意味着什么的深刻探索，它代表了现代艺术两位最杰出头脑之间的一次里程碑式的合作。

凭借四十年的友谊——以及他自身作为画家的直觉——高英的评述将语言推向意义的边缘，以诗意的犀利唤起弗洛伊德艺术的丰富性，他在颜料本身之中发现了“一种盘绕的警觉……以及在直面对象时那种蓄势待发、快速反应中所蕴含的蛇一般柔韧的灵巧。”

弗洛伊德对原书出版的深度参与，为了解这位艺术家在20世纪80年代的状态提供了难得的洞见。那些塑造了高英文本的对话与问题，产出了弗洛伊德最令人难忘且被广泛引用的一些反思；同时，弗洛伊德对绘画作品的选择与分组，揭示了他眼中自己作品之间意想不到的联系。

First published in 1982, Lawrence Gowing’s Lucian Freud is an intimate account of one of the twentieth century’s most exceptional artists. At once a pivotal narrative, a furtive autobiography and a profound exploration of what it means to think through paint, this book represents a landmark collaboration between two of modern art’s brightest minds.

Drawing on forty years of friendship – as well as his own painterly intuition – Gowing’s commentary pushes language to the very edge of meaning, evoking the richness of Freud’s art with poetic incisiveness as he locates, within the paint itself, ‘a coiled vigilance and ... a serpentine litheness in the ready, rapid way in which an object was confronted.’

Freud’s deep involvement in the original book offers rare insight into the artist as he was in the 1980s. The conversations and questions that shape Gowing’s text produced some of Freud’s most memorable and widely quoted reflections, while Freud’s choice and grouping of paintings and drawings reveal unexpected connections across his works, as seen through his eyes.