TY - JOUR
T1 - Bacon and Bergson on Time and Motion
AU - Arya, Rina
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - The bearing of Bergsonian thought on Bacon’s paintings has become apparent as a result of Deleuze’s study, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation (1981). But aside from Deleuze’s application, there is a lot to recommend constructing a parallel between Bacon and Bergson as figures in their own right. This article explores Bergson’s approaches to temporality and the idea of immediate experience, and applies these to Bacon’s oeuvre, especially with respect to the artist’s antithetical views about an interpretation of narrative, the violence in his work and the phenomenology of the body.
AB - The bearing of Bergsonian thought on Bacon’s paintings has become apparent as a result of Deleuze’s study, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation (1981). But aside from Deleuze’s application, there is a lot to recommend constructing a parallel between Bacon and Bergson as figures in their own right. This article explores Bergson’s approaches to temporality and the idea of immediate experience, and applies these to Bacon’s oeuvre, especially with respect to the artist’s antithetical views about an interpretation of narrative, the violence in his work and the phenomenology of the body.
KW - Bergson
KW - body in motion
KW - durée
KW - experienced time
KW - phenomenology of the body
KW - spatio-temporal relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042564523&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14714787.2015.990331
DO - 10.1080/14714787.2015.990331
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042564523
VL - 16
SP - 67
EP - 85
JO - Visual Culture in Britain
JF - Visual Culture in Britain
SN - 1471-4787
IS - 1
ER -
