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Francis Bacon : painting, philosophy, psychoanalysis
- Title
- Francis Bacon : painting, philosophy, psychoanalysis / edited by Ben Ware ; [contributors] Howard Caygill [and seven others].
- Publication
- London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 176 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- The second in a series of books that seeks to illuminate Francis Bacon's art and motivations, and to open up fresh and stimulating ways of understanding his paintings. Francis Bacon is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works continue to puzzle and unnerve viewers, raising complex questions about their meaning. Over recent decades, two theoretical approaches to Bacon's work have come to hold sway: firstly, that Bacon is an existentialist painter, depicting an absurd and godless world; and secondly, that he is an anti-representational painter, whose primary aim is to bring his work directly onto the spectator's "nervous system". 'Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis' brings together some of today's leading philosophers and psychoanalytic critics to go beyond established readings of Bacon and to open up radically new ways of thinking about his art. The essays bring Bacon into dialogue with figures such as Aristotle, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Adorno and Heidegger, as well as situating his work in the broader contexts of modernism and modernity. The result is a timely and thought-provoking collection that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Bacon, modern art and contemporary aesthetics.
- Series Statement
- Francis Bacon Studies ; II
- Uniform Title
- Francis Bacon studies ; 2.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Howard Caygill / Bacon's Cynegetic Vision -- Scratching the Surface: Distance and Intimacy in Study of Henrietta Moraes -- Laughing / Gregg M. Horowitz -- Revisiting the Mirror Phase / Darian Leader -- From Deconstruction to Plasticity: Morphing Francis Bacon / Catherine Malabou -- From Sense to Sensation: Bacon, Pasting Paint and the Futility of Lacanian Psychoanalysis / Dany Nobus -- The Imposture of the Self-Portrait / Renata Salecl -- Looking the Negative in the Face: Modernist Painting after Affect / Ben Ware -- Bacon and the Art of Objective Humour / Alenka Zupancic.
- ISBN
- 9780500970980
- 050097098X
- LCCN
- 2019940654
- OCLC
- on1096530971
- 1096530971
- SCSB-9654173
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library