FRANCIS BACON y NAZI PROPAGANDA

British artist Francis Bacon (19091992) was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Here, Martin Hammer presents him as a painter of modern life, whose concern was to distill the feelings associated with living through the rise of Fascism in the 1930s, World War II, the revelations of the Holocaust, and then the early Cold War period. Against a backdrop of changing attitudes toward wartime memories and a gradual resurgence of interest in the war, Hammer offers extensive evidence of Bacons use of prewar N azi propaganda...[Read more]