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The book "Interviews with Francis Bacon" is a collection of 25 interviews with the renowned artist, conducted by art critic David Sylvester. In these interviews, Bacon discusses his art, his life, and his methods. He is candid and engaging, and his responses to Sylvester's questions are insightful and revealing. Among the many topics discussed are Bacon's aims as a painter, his reliance on chance, and his views about the way his work has been interpreted. This book is a classic of its kind, and its insights into Bacon's life and art are invaluable.
The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works, responding always with vivacity and candour to Sylvester's searching questions. Bacon's obsessive effort to record and re-create the human form, his practice of making variation on old masters' painting and on photographs, his dependence on chance, and his views about the way in which his work has been interpreted are only some of the many subjects discussed and investigated in depth during these historic encounters.
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