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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Bacon, bodies, fragmentation « Previous | |Next »
November 11, 2007

The reclaiming the body and repositioning its locus and identity in philosophy can be connected to the work of Francis Bacon who sees bodies as a series of fragments and the fragmented experience of self

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Francis Bacon, Self, 1970

The theme of Bacon's figures is the "shattering of the subject" or the replacement of a unified self by a fragmented self, which has been read as "loss of self" with psychoanalytic implications. The bodies of his figures always merge and hardly differentiate from one another.


| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:54 PM |