{"product_id":"bacon-disfigured-ben-ware-9780500966655","title":"Bacon Disfigured","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis Bacon is undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. In his paintings, Bacon radically disfigures his subjects, making them all but unrecognizable. This is no mere stylistic quirk, but the expression of a deeply held aesthetic vision. For Bacon, the essence of a subject can only be captured in the distorted recording of its appearance. His disfigurations are therefore, as he himself says, attempts to bring back the intensity of reality, to paint images that are \"truer than the literal truth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, some of today's leading philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists go to work on Bacon. They do to the artist what the artist does to his own figures: they disfigure and distort him, twisting, and turning him into something new and previously unseen. This strategy of disfiguration blasts Bacon out of his traditional contexts, opening up new connections between his art and the ideas of key thinkers, including Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Freud, Canguilhem, Genet, Lacan, Adorno, and Althusser. The results are revelatory, allowing us to transform our understanding not only of Bacon but also of modernism itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Ware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0500966656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500966655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ben Ware","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659746160895,"sku":"9780500966655","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bacon-disfigured-ben-ware-9780500966655","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}