Introduction 6
1. Young Lucian: Art in Wartime London 11
2. Pope Francis 22
3. Euston Road in Camberwell 40
4. Spirit in the Mass: the Borough Polytechnic 59
5. Girl with Roses 69
6. Leaping into the Void 88
7. Life into Art: Bacon and Freud in the I950s 107
8. Two Climbers Roped Together 125
9. What Makes the Modern Home so Different? 137
10. An Arena in which to Act 158
11. The Situation in London, 1960 175
12. The Artist Thinks: Hockney and his Contemporaries 194
13. The Grin without the Cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s 206
14. American Connections 225
15. Mysterious Conventionality 246
16. Portrait Surrounded by Artistic Devices 267
17. Shimmering and Dissolving 290
18. The Non-Existence of Acton 313
Epilogue 334
Notes 340
Bibliography 344
Picture Credits 346
Acknowledgments 347
Index 348