Francis Bacon: Revelations
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
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Francis Bacon flung open the doors of the twentieth-century closet, becoming one of the great artists, iconoclasts, and bon vivants of the time. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master comes the first comprehensive look at this Wildean figure whose exploits seem as unforgettable as his painting.
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The Book
Francis Bacon played an outsized role in both the art — and the life — of his time. In the studio, he captured the shadows of a dark century. After work, he swashbuckled through London’s Soho, a witty free spirit and unabashed homosexual during a period when many contemporaries remained closeted.
And yet, as this new biography by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan reveals, Bacon was a far more varied, nuanced, and surprising figure than the celebrated persona suggests.
The Authors
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
Mark Stevens has been the art critic of Newsweek, The New Republic, and New York Magazine and has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The New York Times.
Annalyn Swan is the former arts editor of Newsweek and an award-winning music critic. She teaches biographical writing at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as at Middlebury Breadloaf School of English.
Their previous book, de Kooning: An American Master, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Biography among other honors and awards.