Francis Bacon - incunabula. By Martin Harrison and Rebecca Daniels. Foreword by Barbara Dawson.

Umschlageinriss mit Klebestreifen, sonst gutes Exemplar. - In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject - the human body - and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. Instead he appropriated images from the mass media that he manipulated into his 'studies'. H is paintings bore witness to the shattered psychology of the time and shot him to a prominence that hardly diminished over the next fifty years, and that continues to rise. This book presents many of the 'working documents' about which Bacon was entirely secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process. Culled from thousands of pieces of original material found in his studio, including newspapers, magazines, books and photographs, these items have each been exhaustively and minutely researched, providing for the first time comprehensive details of the artist's sources.This base material - folded, torn, clipped and spattered with paint - underwent an alchemical transformation from mundane matter into new images. ISBN 9780500093443