Bacon in Moscow

Bacon in Moscow
James Birch
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Hardback
h244 x 186mm - 208pg
27 Jan 2022 UK
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9781788169745
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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 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
' Praise for Bacon in Moscow: ' A rollicking cultural adventure before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the meteoric rise of contemporary art in the nineties. James Birch pulls off an artistic coup necessitating endless champagne nights in Soho with Francis Bacon and marathon Moscow vodka sessions with the mysterious Sergei Klokov. Fascinating and true. What a liver!' ' - Grayson Perry ' Praise for JAMES BIRCH: [Birch has] created some of the ' most imaginative exhibitions of the last twenty years' ' - F22 Magazine
James Birch is a curator who has promoted modern art exhibitions around the world for over thirty years. He opened his first gallery in 1983, followed by two more in London over the next two decades. James has exhibited artists including Grayson Perry, Francis Bacon, Gilbert & George, Austin Osman Spare, Eileen Agar and Denis Wirth-Miller.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788169745
Published: 27 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 244mm
Width: 186mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 760g
Pages: 208

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