Bacon and Bergson on Time and Motion
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 7
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14714787.2015.990331
- Title of journal
- Visual Culture in Britain
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- First page
- 67
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1471-4787
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper explores French Philosopher Henri Bergson’s approaches to temporality and the idea of immediate experience, and applies these to Francis Bacon’s oeuvre, especially with respect to the artist’s antithetical views about the interpretation of narrative, the violence in his work and the phenomenology of the body. The meaning of Bergsonian thought on Francis Bacon’s paintings has become apparent as a result of Giles Deleuze’s study, Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation(1981). But aside from Deleuze’s application, there is much to recommend constructing a parallel between Bacon and Bergson in their own right and this paper represents a new aspect to Bacon scholarship. Much has been written about the impact of the photography of Eadweard Muybridge on Bacon’s notion of the temporal, which has been important. However, it is Bergson’s notion of durée that captures most closely Bacon’s experience of the body in motion. This paper is highly significant because it interrogates philosophically the aesthetic challenges Bacon faced in representing the body in motion.
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- Non-English
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