Birch, James (Art dealer and gallery owner), Bacon in Moscow , 2022
- Title(s):
- Bacon in Moscow / James Birch.
- Published/Created:
- London : Cheerio, 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNJ18.B13 B57 2022 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16184367
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- 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, 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.
- Subject Terms:
- Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 -- Exhibitions.Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992.Birch, James (Art dealer and gallery owner)Intellectual life.Soviet Union -- History -- 1985–1991.Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.Soviet Union.T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ dom khudozhnika (Russia)T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ dom khudozhnika (Russia)
- Form/Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
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