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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
April 15, 2014
Pages
174
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780544114593
ISBN-10
0544114590
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$20.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Interviews With Francis Bacon | The Art of Rivalry | Known and Strange Things | Lucian Freud | Man With a Blue Scarf | Alice Neel | A Painter's Progress | Suspended Sentences | Breakfast With Lucian
Interviews With Francis Bacon | The Art of Rivalry | Known and Strange Things | Lucian Freud | Man With a Blue Scarf | Alice Neel | A Painter's Progress | Suspended Sentences | Breakfast With Lucian
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud's work and life, showing how the two converge.
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In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination.
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Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itselfâits influences, models, and techniqueâto show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real.
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In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: to find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination.
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Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itselfâits influences, models, and techniqueâto show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real.
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Hardcover
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from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 15, 2014)
9780544114593 | details & prices | 174 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $20.00
About: Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced.
About: Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced.
With Melanie Tebbutt |
from Palgrave Macmillan (June 1, 1983); titled "Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit"
9780312506698 | details & prices | List price $27.50
This edition also contains Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit
This edition also contains Making Ends Meet: Pawnbroking and Working-Class Credit
CD/Spoken Word
With Laural Merlington (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (April 15, 2014)
9781480570795 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.15 lbs | List price $14.99
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