Bacon in Moscow

'A rollicking cultural adventure before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the meteoric rise of contemporary art in the nineties... 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, 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.

ISBN:	9781788169745
Publisher:	Profile
Imprint:	Cheerio
Published date:	03 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	759.2
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	766g
Height:	190mm
Width:	249mm
Spine width:	28mm

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