O sobie / do siebie (Listy Michela Leirisa do Francisa Bacona
Francis Bacon, Michel Leiris About Oneself / To Each Other

Summary/Abstract: Przełożył Marek Kędzierski. An acclaimed painter and a renowned anthropologist, Francis Bacon and Michel Leiris, remained friends from the mid-1960s until death. This was an unusually intensive „relationship” – let us recall that Bacon twice portrayed the author of L’Age d’homme and created a series inspired by Leiris’ Le Miroir de la Tauromachie; in turn, Leiris is the author of several important essays about Bacon’s painting and contributed to the propagation of his oeuvre in France. We publish only a few of the numerous extant traces: three letters and two brief statements...

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