Francis Bacon and Nazi propaganda - Hammer Martin
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KORTE INHOUD
Francis Bacon is unique amongst his generation of artists in independently choosing Hitler, Nazi Germany and Fascist propaganda as a major source for his practice. In this new scholarly study, Martin Hammer addresses the question of how and why Bacon appropriated Fascist imagery to his own expressive ends, emphasising how, far from being an artist of private spaces and personal anguish, he in fact found inspiration from mass circulated media and its place in the promotion of global ideals. Featuring an extensive selection of archival material, Hammer uses focused visual engagement with Bacon's work to illuminate the artist's preoccupaton with the wider contemporary world.
