Modernists & Mavericks Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters historical art fiction The first in a new

The first in a new series of Discover titles

Philip McEvansoneya and Christopher Riopelle detail the founding of the collection

viewed them and interpreted them

she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China

Martin Harrison’s arrangement of this exhilarating new material will hopefully prove more convenient for readers

Modernists & Mavericks Bacon, Freud, Hockney & The London Painters historical art fiction The first in a newThis question bound together a diverse community of artists in London after the Second World War. In answering it, many became household names: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and more. Drawing on decades of interviews, Martin Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the Swinging Sixties. It is