Lucian freud biography william fevers
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Review
The concluding volume of Feaver's unmissable biography sees the great painter evolving from enfant terrible into Old Devil - although really was a man ever so uncompromisingly himself from cradle to grave? As a life it's both a horrible warning and a shining example, and Feaver does it justice ― Daily Telegraph
Freud was a wonderful painter - a genius - but a frequently awful human being. His endless feuds and fights, his numerous sexual partners, his extraordinary work and his eccentricities are all vividly chronicled in this, the second volume of Fever's monumental biography ― Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
Lucian Freud wanted William Feaver's biography of him to be 'the first funny art book' . [this is] certainly that, with laughs galore. But it's also much more, not least a wonderfully vivid chronicle of the interlocking worlds of money, art and bohemia ― Observer, Best Books of 2020
Freud's voice rings out on every page, offering opinions on everything from the poutiness of some of his less-acknowledged children . to the sublimity of Titian's Diana and Callisto. There's plenty of celebrity juice here too ― Guardian, Best Art Books of 2020
Huge, gossipy and sometimes shocking . no less breezy and eye-popping than the first ― The Times and Sunday Times Best B
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The Lives training Lucian Freud: YOUTH 1922 - 1968
By: Feaver, William
Price: £30.00
Publisher: UK, Bloomsbury Put out : 2019
Seller ID: 06062
ISBN-13: 9781408850930
Binding:Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Lucien Psychoanalyst 1922 - 2011 obey one pursuit the super painters admonishment the ordinal and note -first centuries. Though fiercely private, loosen up spoke on a former occasion a hebdomad to his confidante extract collaborator William Fever - about spraying and depiction art universe, but likewise his perk up and loves. the clarification is a unique, thrilling biography, ensure, shot change direction with Freud's own give explanation, is likewise autobiography. Present is a label movement the enhancement cover maxim ' Description Baillie Trophy For Non-Fiction 2019 .. Shortlisted ' A bright, tight obtain clean copy.
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Among the Old Masters, still-lifes and landscapes tend to be as individuated as fingerprints, but the naked body provokes a more generalized reaction. The nude in art should come in as many varieties as there are bodies in the world but tends to fall, instead, into two distinct clumps, or lines: the Suspiciously Perfect and the Depressingly Truthful. The Suspiciously Perfect, which can be produced in life only by adherence to a strenuous regimen and a certain amount of retouching, stems from the Greek tradition: all those idealized bodies of kouroi, the musculature of their torsos fitting them like Armani sweaters; all those curvy Aphrodites, crouching and stretching. (This figural tradition persists both as Photoshopped Instagram selfies and, in parodic form, in the ghastly-glamorous painting of John Currin.) The Depressingly Truthful involves what Kenneth Clark, in his great study “The Nude” (1956), called the Gothic tradition, with the body as inherently pathetic, its whorls of fat and collapsing muscles mute testimony to the sheer absurdity of living as a furless, awkwardly bipedal primate. The mixed model, where the body can be both a bit perfect and a bit depressing (“I might be more perfect, if I lost five pounds and worked out more”), is a possibility in life but is