Like an analyst listening to a patient, this study attends not just
to what is said in David Sylvester's interviews with Francis Bacon,
but also crucially to what is left unspoken, to revealing
interruptions and caesuras. Through interpreting these silences,
After Francis Bacon breaks with stereotypical ideas about the
artist's work and provides new readings and avenues of research.
After Francis Bacon is the first book to give extended
consideration to the way the reception of Bacon's art, including
Gilles Deleuze's influential text on the artist, has been shaped by
the Sylvester interviews - and to move beyond the limiting effects
of the interviews, providing fresh interpretations. Nicholas Chare
draws upon recent developments in psychoanalysis and forensic
psychology to present innovative readings of Bacon's work,
primarily based on the themes of sadomasochism and multi-sensory
perception. Through bringing Bacon's paintings into dialogue with
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the film Alien, he also
provides original insights into the ethical relevance the artist's
works have for today. This study addresses the complexities of the
artist's practice - particularly in relation to sexuality and
synaesthesia - and additionally forms a crucial intervention within
current debates about creative writing in art history.
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