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
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.
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