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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.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a comprehensive study of the work of Lucian Freud spanning his entire career to date. Although other volumes have been published, none since the large Bruce Bernard retrospective have been quite as vast an account as this one. The Bernard book is also quite hard to find these days and you could be expected to pay upwards of £100 for a good copy.
I have studied the Bernard book and this one by Feaver is easily as good and is even longer due to the simple fact that Freud has made many more works since the Bernard book was published in 1996.
If you don't own a Freud book then this is a great one to buy. If you do you may be disapointed at the amount of images you will already have seen. However, that is the only reason I have given this book 4 stars and not 5. There are conversations between Freud and Feaver within and an essay by Feaver gets the book off to a good start. I have read more challenging essays on Freud in other publications but this book seems to point more at the work than be a critical study and this essay by Feaver is a great read.
I own many books on Freud and I wasn't disapointed with this one as the work from his early and middle career is covered in greater detail than in previous books. The images I had not seen more than made up for the fact that I had seen many of the others. The attractive slip case sealed the deal as I am a sucker for good presentation!
Now in his 85th year Freud is still making work and this publication by Feaver brings us right up to date on the career of one of Britains most celebrated figurative artists.
I have studied the Bernard book and this one by Feaver is easily as good and is even longer due to the simple fact that Freud has made many more works since the Bernard book was published in 1996.
If you don't own a Freud book then this is a great one to buy. If you do you may be disapointed at the amount of images you will already have seen. However, that is the only reason I have given this book 4 stars and not 5. There are conversations between Freud and Feaver within and an essay by Feaver gets the book off to a good start. I have read more challenging essays on Freud in other publications but this book seems to point more at the work than be a critical study and this essay by Feaver is a great read.
I own many books on Freud and I wasn't disapointed with this one as the work from his early and middle career is covered in greater detail than in previous books. The images I had not seen more than made up for the fact that I had seen many of the others. The attractive slip case sealed the deal as I am a sucker for good presentation!
Now in his 85th year Freud is still making work and this publication by Feaver brings us right up to date on the career of one of Britains most celebrated figurative artists.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book opens with an essay by William Feaver; personal and enlightening it makes fascinating reading; the writer has clearly known the artist for some time. Feaver conveys a clear picture of the artist, his background and training, and his approach to his work. Also included are four conversations between Fever and Lucian Freud: November 1992 (appeared The Observer December 1992), April 1998 (The Observer May 1998), November 2001 (on John Constable) and February 2007. The book concludes with a List of Illustrations, fairly brief Chronology and a Bibliography.
This book is illustrated throughout in full-colour including the black and white drawings but not the etchings, which alone are reproduced in black and white half-tone. There are 362 illustrations in the Plates section with many more pictures accompanying the essay.
This large format book comes in a very substantial slip-case. The outstanding feature of the book however is the reproduction of the paintings; mostly full-page in size, with many bleed images and several double-page spreads. The work is arranged chronologically with the earliest dating from 1939 up to 2006; almost entirely portraits, figures or groups, there is the occasional still life and a few scenes. An impressive and beautiful book superbly illustrated, it is to be highly recommended.
This book is illustrated throughout in full-colour including the black and white drawings but not the etchings, which alone are reproduced in black and white half-tone. There are 362 illustrations in the Plates section with many more pictures accompanying the essay.
This large format book comes in a very substantial slip-case. The outstanding feature of the book however is the reproduction of the paintings; mostly full-page in size, with many bleed images and several double-page spreads. The work is arranged chronologically with the earliest dating from 1939 up to 2006; almost entirely portraits, figures or groups, there is the occasional still life and a few scenes. An impressive and beautiful book superbly illustrated, it is to be highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
precious is the book of this great painter. the images are amazing and very good quality, as it should be all art book, merit and appreciation to the editorial, very very good, really worth it. It covers all of his work, until recent years, including many works not seen in other books that I have.
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Almost excellent
I bought this book in the wake of visiting the Freud exhibition at the Nat.Portrait Gallery (Feb 2012) so have a very clear visual memory of the colour tones used by Lucien Freud. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dafna G
Stunning but heavy!
Others have said it far better than me but this really is a stunning book: big, exquisite reproductions of Freud's work and perceptive text. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Isafish
Excellent
I do not want to repeat what has already been said, but I would recommend this book to anyone. Spanning nearly his entire career it is a sturdy book with excellent images. Read more
Published on 26 May 2010 by Victoria
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