Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
New and edited by Ben Ware, Director CPVA Philosophy|Arts.
We are delighted to announce that in October Thames & Hudson will publish Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, edited by Ben Ware. This text goes beyond established readings of Bacon with a groundbreaking collection of essays by some of today's most prominent philosophers and psychoanalytic critics:
Bacon’s Cynegetic Vision - Howard Caygill, Professor of Modern European Philosophy in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University
Scratching the Surface: Distance and Intimacy in Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing - Gregg Horowitz, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York City
Revisiting the Mirror Phase - Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst and Member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts
From Deconstruction to Plasticity: Morphing Francis Bacon - Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University
From Sense to Sensation: Bacon, Pasting Paint and the Futility of Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University, and Former Chair of the Freud Museum
The Imposture of the Self Portrait - Renata Salecl, Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Law at Birkbeck College, University of London
Looking the Negative in the Face: Modernist Painting after Affect - Ben Ware, Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Visual Arts, King’s College, London
Bacon and the Art of Objective Humour - Alenka Zupancic, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences
Bacon's work is brought into dialogue with a range of figures, including Hegel, Kant, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger and Deleuze and is situated in the broader cultural contexts of modernism and modernity.