BACON IN MOSCOW

• Date de parution : 27/01/2022
• Editeur : Profile Books
• EAN : 9781788169745
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 208
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Littérature française
• Thème : Autobiographies contemporaines
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

Bacon in Moscow recounts the audacious quest by the young English curator James Birch to mount the ground-breaking Francis Bacon retrospective at the Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988, a sell-out show that had Muscovites queuing round the block and the first exhibition of a... Voir plus

Bacon in Moscow recounts the audacious quest by the young English curator James Birch to mount the ground-breaking Francis Bacon retrospective at the Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988, a sell-out show that had Muscovites queuing round the block and the first exhibition of a living Western artist in the Soviet Union for over forty years. Sidelined by the British art establishment Birch used a network of Soviet fixers and government officials to stage the event, and the book is also a very funny personal memoir of how he found himself the subject of the KGB''s attention amid a shady cast of officials, spies and politicians. Birch''s ambitious plan to bring unseen Western culture to the Soviet Union parallels Gorbachev''s opening up of the country, making it one of the pivotal cultural events in a wave of change just a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.