Lucian Freud : eyes wide open / Phoebe Hoban.
Lucian Freud : eyes wide open / Phoebe Hoban.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Call Numbers
G 2014/4775
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Language
English
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Physical content
174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The art of looking -- Learning to be Lucian -- Women and muses -- London days -- Beautiful people -- Letting go -- Carnal knowledge -- Channeling Courbet -- Intimations of mortality -- Bypassing decorum -- New views -- The way of all flesh -- Painting against time -- Not going gently -- Leaving the...
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Publisher
Boston : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
In Hoban's dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, him...
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Full title
Lucian Freud : eyes wide open / Phoebe Hoban.
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Icons series.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2014/4775
Record Identifier
74VKK42RzRyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKK42RzRyg
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ISBN
0544114590 (hardback)
9780544114593 (hardback)
DDC
759.2
MMS ID
991021980039702626
