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FRANCIS BACON BOOKS AND PAINTING - DIDIER OTTIN...

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years  this
catalogue analyses Bacon's works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature.
Bacon always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings  preferring to interpret them in
purely illustrative or symbolic terms  he admitted  however  that literature was a powerful
stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conjured up by certain
texts: Aeschylus' phrase 'the reek of human blood smiles out at me' in particular haunted Bacon
while his 1978 work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land. The inventory
of Bacon's personal library has identified more than 1 300 books  ranging from Bataille and
Conrad to Nietzsche and Leiris. Including twelve of Bacon's renowned triptychs  this lavish
publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings created by Bacon between 1971
and his death in 1992. Reproduced here with analyses of Bacon's paintings in the light of some
of his most admired authors  these specially commissioned texts reveal new ways of
understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern canon.

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