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Books narrated by Michael Peppiatt

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  • Francis Bacon

    Anatomy of an Enigma

    Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable, his paintings continue to challenge interpretations and provoke controversy. Bacon was also an extraordinary personality. Generous but cruel, forthright yet manipulative, ebullient but in despair: He was the sum of his contradictions. This life, lived at extremes, was ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bacon's Women

    How they Shaped the Artist You Thought you Knew

    Leading art historian and biographer Michael Peppiatt examines the crucial role played by women in the life and art of 20th century British artist Francis BaconFrancis Bacon (1909-1992) is still widely seen as the great painter of masculine anguish: the bars and the brutality, the writhing male bodies and the screaming popes. Yet this portrayal of Bacon, so often repeated, misses a crucial truth. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Giacometti in Paris

    THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023'Intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul TherouxA portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historiansToday the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking prices. But from his early days as an unknown outsider to the end of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Francis Bacon

    Anatomy of an Enigma

    Published in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded.In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008 through summer 2009 - Peppiatt will incorporate confidential material Bacon gave him, which he did not include in the first edition ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Existential Englishman

    Paris Among the Artists

    The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris – a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to Paris.Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, The Existential Englishman chronicles Peppiatt ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Francis Bacon in Your Blood

    A Memoir

    In "a frank and stylish memoir," an art historian recalls his thirty year friendship with Bacon against the background of the European art world ( The New Yorker ).Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon in June 1963, in the French House in Soho. Peppiatt was immediately swept into the controversial painter's world and, over oysters and champagne, they embarked on a friendship that would endure ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Francis Bacon

    A Self-Portrait in Words

    A new selection of letters, statements, and interviews reveals the preoccupations, thoughts, and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the twentieth century’s most influential and important artists.The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon’s sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Artists' Lives

    Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes, and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art-world insider.Praised by The Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation,” Michael Peppiatt has encountered many European modern artists over more than fifty years. This selection of some of his best biographical writing covers a ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Francis Bacon

    Anatomy of an Enigma

    This book, a biography on Francis Bacon, is inspired by the friendship the author had with Bacon and based on records of the conversations that took place since 1963. The book forms the first comprehensive account of the artist's life and his work. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Francis Bacon in Your Blood

    A Memoir

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    In June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famous painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist’s world; Bacon, considered by many to be “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” proved himself a devoted friend and father figure, even amidst the drinking and gambling ... Read more

    $25.00 CAD

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  • The Road from Versailles

    Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy

    by Munro Price ...
    "Through brilliant detective work, Price has uncovered documents that shed a definitive light on the French Crown's policy toward the revolution." — Library JournalIn acclaimed historian Munro Price's powerful new book, he confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution—what were the true actions and feelings of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they watched their sovereignty ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • From the Rez to the Runway

    Forging My Path in Fashion

    Growing up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Christian Allaire wanted to work in the fashion industry, a future that seemed like a remote, and unlikely, dreamHe was first introduced to style and design through his culture’s traditional Ojibwe powwow regalia—ribbon skirts, beaded belts, elaborate headdresses. But as a teenager, he became transfixed by the high-fashion ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD