{"product_id":"9783836560634","title":"Freud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnflinching truth: Portraits which scrutinized beneath the skin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLucian Freud (1922–2011)\u003c\/b\u003e was interested in the telling of truth. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellingings of the living body, but also, \u003cb\u003ebeneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud's sitting process for portraiture and \u003cb\u003eSigmund Freud's psychotherapy sessions\u003c\/b\u003e is a fascinating element to this figurative oeuvre. Despite the thickness of the impasto surfaces, Freud's portraits of subjects as varied as the \u003cb\u003eQueen, Kate Moss, and an obese job center supervisor\u003c\/b\u003e, penetrate the physicality of the body with a direct, and often disarming, insight. The result is as much a \u003cb\u003epsychological interrogation\u003c\/b\u003e as it is an uneasy examination of the \u003cb\u003erelationship between artist and model\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together some of Freud's most outstanding and unapologetic portraits, to introduce an artist widely considered one of the finest masters of the human form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Series:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series features:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea concise biography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eapproximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen America, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037912613104,"sku":"9783836560634","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783836560634_p0.jpg?v=1769887979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783836560634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}