Francis Bacon: Revelations

Francis Bacon- Revelations
Francis Bacon: Revelations, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Photo: NYTimes)
Art historian John Richardson called Francis Bacon “the first modern painter of international caliber that the British have produced.” In their new book, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write about the fearless painter whose influences were Nietzsche and Aeschylus, and whose mode was “exhilarated despair”.اضافة اعلان

Critic Parul Sehgal wrote in her review, “It is the most comprehensive and detailed account of the life, and one that topples central pillars of the Bacon myth.”