{"product_id":"modernists-and-mavericks-bacon-freud-hockney-and-the-london-painters-9780500239773","title":"Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon  Freud  Hockney and the London Painters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece  a major work of modern art history.\"  Wall Street Journal Martin Gayfords masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s  illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitajs proposal  made in 1976  that there was a substantial School of London was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work  when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley. Modernists and Mavericks explores this period based on an exceptionally deep well of firsthand interviews  often unpublished  with such artists as Victor Pasmore  John Craxton  Lucian Freud  Frank Auerbach  Allen Jones  R. B. Kitaj  Euan Uglow  Howard Hodgkin  Terry Frost  Gillian Ayres  Bridget Riley  David Hockney  Frank Bowling  Leon Kossoff  John Hoyland  and Patrick Caulfield. But Martin Gayford also teases out the thread weaving these individual lives together and demonstrates how and why  long after it was officially declared dead  painting lived and thrived in London. Simultaneously aware of the influences of Jackson Pollock  Giacometti  and (through the teaching passed down at the major art school) the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse  the postwar painters were bound by their confidence that this ancient medium could do fresh and marvelous things  and explored in their diverse ways  the possibilities of paint. 100 illustrations  70 in color\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67893946843189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500239770","price":25.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500239773.jpg?v=1793763601","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/modernists-and-mavericks-bacon-freud-hockney-and-the-london-painters-9780500239773","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}