David Alan Mellor
Biographic Data
| ID | 9409528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Alan Mellor |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mellor |
| SIGNATURE | MELLOR D A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘The Phoenix of English Painting’
Evaluations of Bloomsbury painting have been growing in complexity of explanation over the last two decades and this article partly arises from points in the research of both Christopher Reed and Lisa Tickner in its emphasis on contemporary cultural concepts of the male body and influential elements from popular entertainment culture. The bodily codes of imperial Hellenism – a compound of body-building physique rhetoric and recollections of Greek…
Framing Bacon
With his participation in an exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1945, Francis Bacon's paintings acquired a certain critical velocity of exceptionalism. This article looks at some of the narratives that sustained his reception for the next couple of decades. These include the trope of Bacon as existentialist representative of a catastrophic moment in Western culture; the Gothic ambience that is constructed around him by writers such as Robert Me…
Bacon Reframed
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Framing Bacon
With his participation in an exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1945, Francis Bacon's paintings acquired a certain critical velocity of exceptionalism. This article looks at some of the narratives that sustained his reception for the next couple of decades. These include the trope of Bacon as existentialist representative of a catastrophic moment in Western culture; the Gothic ambience that is constructed around him by writers such as Robert Me…
Bacon Reframed
‘The Phoenix of English Painting’
Evaluations of Bloomsbury painting have been growing in complexity of explanation over the last two decades and this article partly arises from points in the research of both Christopher Reed and Lisa Tickner in its emphasis on contemporary cultural concepts of the male body and influential elements from popular entertainment culture. The bodily codes of imperial Hellenism – a compound of body-building physique rhetoric and recollections of Greek…
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