Harrison, Martin 1945-

In camera - Francis Bacon : photography, film and the practice of painting by Martin Harrison ( Book )
7 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 663 libraries worldwide
With the aid of over 250 source images and documents, this text reveals how photographs, film, mass-media imagery and other sources informed Bacon's painting and, in particular, how 'lens-based images' helped to trigger the most significant turning point in his stylistic development.

De Gaulle's Republic by Philip Maynard Williams ( Book )
14 editions published between 1960 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 609 libraries worldwide

Appearances : fashion photography since 1945 by Martin Harrison ( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and held by 514 libraries worldwide

Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon ( Book )
6 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and Spanish and held by 463 libraries worldwide
Explores the work of twentieth-century painter Francis Bacon, particularly his depiction of the human figure, with essays and over two hundred full-color plates as well as photographs, imagery from films, and magazine tear sheets.

Trade unions and the Labour Party since 1945 by Martin Harrison ( Book )
11 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 452 libraries worldwide

Pre-Raphaelite paintings and graphics by Martin Harrison ( Book )
5 editions published between 1971 and 1973 in English and held by 390 libraries worldwide

Burne-Jones by Martin Harrison ( Book )
10 editions published between 1973 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 386 libraries worldwide

Burne-Jones by Martin Harrison ( Book )
11 editions published between 1973 and 1977 in English and held by 374 libraries worldwide

Elvis Presley 1956 by Marvin Israel ( Book )
2 editions published in 1998 in French and English and held by 343 libraries worldwide

Francis Bacon : incunabula by Martin Harrison ( Book )
5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 298 libraries worldwide
"In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject - the human body - and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. Instead he appropriated images from the mass media that he manipulated into his 'studies'. His paintings bore witness to the shattered psychology of the time and shot him to a prominence that hardly diminished over the next fifty years, and that continues to rise." "This book presents many of the 'working documents' about which Bacon was entirely secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process. Culled from thousands of pieces of original material found in his studio, including newspapers, magazines, books and photographs, these items have each been exhaustively and minutely researched, providing for the first time comprehensive details of the artist's sources. This base material - folded, torn, clipped and spattered with paint - underwent an alchemical transformation frond mundane matter into new images." "Nearly all previously unseen, these visually thrilling documents demonstrate Bacon's tactile, visceral relationship with his sources, and his unerring eye for seeking out visual stimulation in the most unexpected places. His paintings emerged from a dialogue between great art of the past and photographic imagery of the present: and, as a painter of the transient, his work also shared the pulse and flicker of his other significant inspiration, early cinema. His fascination with medium itself - the texture of paint, the quality of newsprint, the techniques of mechanical reproduction of both the still and moving image - throws light on the nature of Bacon's points of contact with the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.