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Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology

Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology

Bucklow, Christopher
Jaron, Steven
Harrison, Martin

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Series: Francis Bacon Studies

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

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ISBN10: 0500970971
ISBN13: 9780500970973
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: Sep 17 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
Bacon and the Mind sheds light on Francis Bacon's art by exploring his motivations, and in so doing opens up new ways of understanding his paintings. It comprises five essays by prominent scholars in their respective disciplines, illustrated throughout by Bacon's works. Christopher Bucklow argues compellingly that Bacon does not depict the reality of his subjects, but rather their reality for him--in his memory, in his sensibility, and in his private world of sensations and ideas. Steven Jaron's essay questions the psychological implications of Bacon's habitual language, his obsession with the wound, vulnerability, and the nervous system. Darian Leader's essay Bacon and the Body, presents the latest of his fresh and stimulating insights into the artist. The focus in John Onians's Francis Bacon: A Neuroarthistory is the effect of Bacon's unconscious mental processes in the creation of his paintings. The 'Visual Shock' of Francis Bacon: An Essay in Neuroaesthetics is a newly edited and now fully illustrated re-presentation of an article by Semir Zeki, previously accessible only as an online academic paper.

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