James Birch
Bacon in Moscow
Bacon in Moscow
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This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the groundbreaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow, in 1988.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the groundbreaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow, in 1988. Side-lined by the British establishment, Birch found himself at the heart of a honey-trap and the focus for a picaresque cast of Soviet officials, attachés, and politicians under the forbidding eye of the KGB as he attempted to bring an unseen Western cultural icon to Russia during the time of Glasnost, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Bacon in Moscow is the story of the evolution of an exhibition that was at the artistic and political heart of a sea of change that culminated with the fall of the USSR.
Grayson Perry
This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the groundbreaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow, in 1988.
Side-lined by the British establishment, Birch found himself at the heart of a honey-trap and the focus for a picaresque cast of Soviet officials, attachés, and politicians under the forbidding eye of the KGB as he attempted to bring an unseen Western cultural icon to Russia during the time of Glasnost, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Bacon in Moscow is the story of the evolution of an exhibition that was at the artistic and political heart of a sea of change that culminated with the fall of the USSR.
Weight: 374g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788169769
Edition number: Main
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