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Art heavyweights Vincent van Gogh and Jean-Michel Basquiat have been mythologised

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she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China

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FRANCIS BACON RETRIEVED: LOST WORDS / NEW WRITINGS irish drinks Art heavyweights Vincent van GoghPublished in nine parts between 1962 and 1986, Bacons interviews with David Sylvester remain the definitive sources on the artist. But editorial decisions applied by both men ahead of publication saw valuable material being lost until now. With fifteen thousand of Bacons previously unpublished words, exclusive revelations from his associates, compelling recent discoveries, and photographs of destroyed paintings reproduced for the first time, Francis