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Lucian Freud

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Autore/i	William Feaver
Editore	Rizzoli	Luogo	Milano
Anno	2007	Pagine	488
Dimensioni	26x31 (cm)	Illustrazioni	362 tavv. col.- colors ills
Legatura	tela ed. sovracc. ill. colori e cofanetto - hardcover dustjacket and slipcase	Conservazione	Nuovo - New
Lingua	Inglese - English Text	Peso	3800 (gr)
ISBN	0847829529	EAN-13	9780847829521

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I lavori di Lucian Freud hanno una forte inclinazione autobiografica: riguardano fondamentalmente se stesso e ciò che gli è vicino.

In questo libro, l'ottantacinquenne pittore si mette a nudo attraverso oltre 400 opere e il racconto della sua carriera artistica. Diventato un pittore di culto dopo una grande mostra a Washington del 1987, Freud e' ormai considerato con David Hockney uno dei piu' grandi pittori inglesi viventi.

II volume raccoglie non solo i celebri nudi femminili e i drammatici ritratti, rivelatori della vita interiore dei personaggi, ma anche paesaggi di citta', interni, e inoltre disegni, bozzetti, incisioni.....

This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud’s paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud’s preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud’s advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: “To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know.” (T-CA)