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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1788169743
ISBN-13
9781788169745
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Profile Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture
IT
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 27th, 2022
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
766 grams
Dimensions
19.00 x 24.90 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
The arts
Ksh 3,400.00
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The hilarious account of one man's quest to mount a Francis Bacon exhibition in the Soviet Union.
A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true'' - Grayson Perry. This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground-breaking 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, attaches 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. ''A rollicking cultural adventure before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the meteoric rise of contemporary art in the nineties'' - Grayson Perry.
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