Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ben Ware
By (author) The Estate of Francis Bacon
SeriesFrancis Bacon Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 260,Width 200
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9780500970980
ClassificationsDewey:759.2
Audience
General
Illustrations 100 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 17 October 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Ben Ware is the Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts at King's College, London. He is the author of numerous books on continental philosophy, critical theory and modernist aesthetics.