It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud once dubbed "the Ingres of existentialism" has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist possesses his ability to paint the texture and thinness of skin over flesh, and his distinctive portraits have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget. This volume, with over one hundred superb reproductions of his greatest paintings, pays tribute to one of the most original and accomplished artists of the twentieth century.
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The critic Robert Hughes describes Lucian Freud's quest for a reality beyond naturalism, which has produced some of the most powerful and moving paintings - particularly portraits - of recent decades. Hughes is also author of "The Shock of the New", the book of the television series.
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Robert Hughes ist 1938 in Sydney, Australien, geboren und dort aufgewachsen. Er lebt und arbeitet seit 1970 in den USA als Kunstkritiker für Time Magazine . Er hat zahllose Artikel und 13 Bücher veröffentlicht und diverse Preise und Auszeichnungen erhalten, u.a. den Academy Award in Literature
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Von Tom Klaver
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Although not up to date (it dates from 1987) it does give a good impression of the work of Freud and its development in time.
The images of the paintings are of a high quality but the way the book is structured is highly impractical. First there is the text, then the paintings, without their titles and dates, which are supplied in a separate list.
so, when you read the text, and come to a reference to a painting you have to look it up in the list first and the go to the plate. In other words, the reader has to persevere if he doesn't know Lucian Freuds work by heart.
The text unfortunately suffers from the usual pretentiousness that seems inherent to art critics and historians these days.
The images of the paintings are of a high quality but the way the book is structured is highly impractical. First there is the text, then the paintings, without their titles and dates, which are supplied in a separate list.
so, when you read the text, and come to a reference to a painting you have to look it up in the list first and the go to the plate. In other words, the reader has to persevere if he doesn't know Lucian Freuds work by heart.
The text unfortunately suffers from the usual pretentiousness that seems inherent to art critics and historians these days.
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Von Paul J. Williams
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Any book containing the work of Lucian Freud, I feel, writes itself. Not as an insult to the author, but as a testiment to the painter himself.
The full page color photos do justice to this great man, as well as a book can.
The author does an acceptional job of sumarizing and analyzing the painter's Life and work.
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A definitve monograph
29. Juni 2001
Von Grady Harp
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Every great artist deserves a great biographer: Bacon had David Sylvester, Giocometti had Sylvester AND James Lord, and Lucien Freud has Robert Hughes. Hughes' generous text is richly detailed and captures the mood of Freud's heavily impastoed works with turns of phrase that become as important as the art. To see the change in Freud's technique and approach to the figure from his early works to his current larger than life theatrical style is jolting. Always commited to portraiture his paintings have grown from the tightly surfaced, tiny but well known head of his friend Francis Bacon, to his current full figures as viewed from bizarre vantage. His brush technique has become more coarse and in doing so he is creating figures that, while monumental, feel as thogh they pulsate on the canvas. Freud is one of the important painters of our time and this book justifies that position on every level. A scholarly - yet pulsatile - study of a modern genius.
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23. August 2007
Von C. Robert Friedman
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Freud's work primarily through photographs of his paintings. However, the text is weak on chronology, development and current status of his painting technique. ...A good intro for the person who is not familiar with his work.
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"Fascinating Freud Figures"
23. Februar 2000
Von Paul J. Williams
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Any book containing the work of Lucian Freud, I feel, writes itself. Not as an insult to the author, but as a testiment to the painter himself.
The full page color photos do justice to this great man, as well as a book can.
The author does an acceptional job of sumarizing and analyzing the painter's Life and work.
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