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Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self by Ernst Van Alphen (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674317637

ISBN-139780674317635

eBay Product ID (ePID)919092

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFrancis Bacon and the Loss of Self

SubjectIndividual Artists / General, History / Contemporary (1945-)

Publication Year1994

TypeTextbook

AuthorErnst Van Alphen

Subject AreaArt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal759.2

SynopsisSince his death in April 12 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by discussing it as an existential expression and as the horrifying communication of an isolated individual'e"which simply transfers the pain in the paintings back to Bacon himself. This study is the first attempt to account for the pain of the viewer., Since his death in April 1992 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by discussing it as an existential expression and as the horrifying communication of an isolated individual - which simply transfers the pain in the paintings back to Bacon himself. This study is the first attempt to account for the pain of the viewer. It is also, most challengingly, an explanation of what Bacon's art tells us about ourselves as individuals. For, during this very personal investigation, the author comes to realize that the effect of Bacon's work is founded upon the way that each of us carves our identity, our self, from the inchoate evidence of our senses, using the conventions of representation as tools. It is in his warping of these conventions of the senses, rather than in the superficial distortion of his images, that Bacon most radically confronts art, and ourselves as individuals.