Author : Ernst van Alphen
Release : 1993
Genre : Art
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Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self write by Ernst van Alphen. This book was released on 1993. Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 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 individualâe"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 Baconâe(tm)s art tells us about ourselves as individuals. For, during this very personal investigation, the author comes to realize that the effect of Baconâe(tm)s work is founded upon the way that each of us carves our identity, our âeoeself,âe 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 âeoeart,âe and ourselves as individuals.