To mark the centenary of Lucian Freud's birth, this book seeks to broaden our understanding of the artist and his working method through a variety of original essays and interviews with contemporary painters. With artworks spanning Freud's entire 70-year career, New Perspectives offers fresh insights into one of the twentieth century's most renowned artists.
Lucian Freud. New Perspectives is published to mark the centenary of Lucian Freud’s birth in 1922, organised jointly by the National Gallery in London and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. When he died in 2011, aged 88, Freud had been a powerful, incisive and sometimes controversial presence on the international art scene for more than six decades. Born in Berlin, Freud was the son of an architect father and a mother who had studied philology and art history; his grandfather was the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. In 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, Lucian Freud’s family moved to London, and his career as a painter took place in England. Once he had decided on his path as an artist, his commitment to painting and figuration was unwavering. This is the first retrospective of Freud's painting to be shown in two art historical museums and places the artist both physically and conceptually within a narrative of painting and the representation of the human form that has evolved over the centuries. Freud's place within that history and his contribution to it are undoubtedly significant.
Authors: Daniel F. Herrmann with texts by Paloma Alarcó, David Dawson, Tracey Emin, Chantal Joffe, Christina Kennedy, Jutha Koether, Catherine Lampert, Maria H. Loh, Nicholas Penny, Gregory Salter, Jasper Sharp and Andrew Wilson
Curators: Paloma Alarcó and Daniel F. Herrmann
Published by the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in collaboration with National Gallery Global.
ISBN: 9788417173715
Dimensions: 24 x 29 cm (width x height) 224 pages.
Hardcover binding.
Spanish Language.
