Lucian Freud - by William Feaver (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Over six decades, Lucian Freud has built up a reputation as one of the most distinctive contemporary figurative artists. Freuds startling and disconcerting portraits and nudes have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget. This stunning book brings together key works from Freuds entire career, including more than 140 paintings, drawings, and etchings.Rizzoli<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud's paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud's preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud's advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: "To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Once you become accustomed to the heftiness of the Rizzoli book, with its nearly 500 pages of high-quality paper, you can find great pleasure in the numerous illustrations and the breadth of vision it gives of the artist's development, with nearly 40 pictures that have never before been illustrated in books on Freud." <i>The Art Book</i> <p/>"This latest effort will be useful as a sweeping visual appreciation of a painter of major importance." <i>Choice Magazine</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>William Feaver</b> is a painter, critic, writer, and curator. He is the author of Freud's previous exhibition catalogue, <i>Lucian Freud</i> (Tate, 2002). He has curated the following exhibitions: Lucian Freud (2002 Tate and tour), Freud (2005 Museo Correr, Venice), and Freud & Auerbach (2006 V&A).
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