BLURRED BOUNDARIES: FRANCIS BACON’S PORTRAITS

• Authors: Lelik Timea Andrea
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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In his oeuvre Francis Bacon hints at the fact that portraiture sacrifices the subject for the sake of representation. For this reason, portraiture as a genre needs to re-determine the conditions that originally shaped it. Through an analysis of the manner in which Bacon depicts his subjects I will argue that his portraits blur the boundaries between object and subject, portrait and viewer, in order to remodel conventional notions of portraiture. Through Gilles Deleuze’ s theory on Francis Bacon, I will reinterpret Bacon ’s works through the prism of Buddhism, arguing that understanding the works through Buddhist practices opens the possibility of a complete transformation of pre-existing concepts which traditionally shaped portrait making.

Keywords

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PORTRAITURE; BACON FRANCIS; DELEUZE GILLES; BUDDHISM

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 84 – 96

Contributors

author

Lelik Timea Andrea

• Amsterdam School for Cultural analysis, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 151012 XT Amsterdam, The Netherlands