Modernists and rebels: Bacon, Freud, Hokni and London School. Heyford M.

Historical and art studies by Martin Heyford (born 1952), the author of collections of interviews with David Hokni and Lucien Freud, British art books, Van Gogh and Michelangelo, dedicated to London painting of the 1950s and 1970s, in which the innovations were fancifully overwhelmed Pop-art with its obsession with the mass culture of the consumer society, existential oriented neoexpressionism and a traditional interest in colorful matter for England. The work of the leading British artists of this time - Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, R. B. China, David Hokni and others. It is considered by the author in the context of aesthetic searches and the violent bohemian life of the leading London.

The book is written on the material of Heyford conversations with most artists that he talks about; Numerous excerpts from these conversations immerse the reader into the atmosphere of British art of the recent past.