{"product_id":"bacon-and-the-mind-art-neuroscience-and-psychology","title":"Bacon and the Mind","description":"\u003ci\u003eBacon and the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on Francis Bacon’s art by exploring his motivations, and in so doing opens up new ways of understanding his paintings through three pillars; art, neuroscience and psychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This beautiful book is comprised of five essays, illustrated in colour throughout by Francis Bacon’s works. It is the first in a brand new series of books, Francis Bacon Studies, that seeks to illuminate Francis Bacon’s art and motivations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first essay, by 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Steven Jaron’s essay questions the psychological implications of Bacon’s habitual language, his obsession with ‘the wound’, with vulnerability and the nervous system. Jaron’s deconstruction of Bacon’s visual imagination results in revealing insights into the man and his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Darian Leader’s long-time fascination with Bacon’s paintings predates his powerful BBC documentary, \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Father?\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). His contribution to this book, presents the latest of his fresh and stimulating insights into the artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The focus in John Onians’s contribution explores the effect of Bacon’s non-conscious mental processes in the creation of his paintings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘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 and Tomohiro Ishizu, previously accessible only online.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Martin Harrison, Editor of \u003ci\u003eFrancis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné\u003c\/i\u003e, edits the book and contributes the Preface and Afterword.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e supported by Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Monaco,\u003cbr\u003e in association with Thames \u0026amp; Hudson.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32138387914835,"sku":"9780500970973","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780500970973.jpg?v=1778510731","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bacon-and-the-mind-art-neuroscience-and-psychology","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}